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248 </para></listitem>
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249 </itemizedlist>
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286 Furthermore, all but the longest movies can be encoded with near-perfect
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287 quality at 1400 MB.
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288 </para>
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292 (CBR), constant quantizer, and multipass (ABR, or average bitrate).
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297 required to compress them, can vary greatly from one scene to another.
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298 Modern video encoders can adjust to these needs as they go and vary
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299 the bitrate.
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305 above.
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306 </para>
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312 <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>
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313 and <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> support
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314 multipass, which slightly improves quality at each pass,
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315 yet this improvement is no longer measurable nor noticeable after the
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316 4th or so pass.
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317 Therefore, in this section, two pass and multipass will be used
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324 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>)
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326 quantizer to each macroblock. The lower the quantizer, the better the
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328 The method the movie encoder uses to determine
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329 which quantizer to use for a given macroblock varies and is highly
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330 tunable. (This is an extreme over-simplification of the actual
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331 process, but the basic concept is useful to understand.)
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332 </para>
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338 lower than the given bitrate. If you truly do not care about file size,
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340 practice, this means a value high enough so that it poses no limit, like
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341 10000Kbit.) With no real restriction on bitrate, the result is that
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345 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>, which is 2 by default).
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348 is forced to use a higher quantizer, then you are almost certainly ruining
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349 the quality of your video.
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350 In order to avoid that, you should probably downscale your video, according
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355 <para>
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358 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>), on every macroblock.
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360 you can use <option>vqscale=2</option>.
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361 This will yield the same bitrate and PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio)
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362 as CBR with
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363 <option>vbitrate</option>=infinity and the default <option>vqmin</option>
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368 The problem with constant quantizing is that it uses the given quantizer
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369 whether the macroblock needs it or not. That is, it might be possible
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370 to use a higher quantizer on a macroblock without sacrificing visual
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371 quality. Why waste the bits on an unnecessarily low quantizer? Your
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372 CPU has as many cycles as there is time, but there is only so many bits
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373 on your hard disk.
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374 </para>
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375
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377 With a two pass encode, the first pass will rip the movie as though it
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884 <entry>L</entry>
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885 <entry>L</entry>
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886 <entry>L</entry>
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889 </row>
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895 As you can see, the pattern does not repeat until after 4 lines.
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897 be multiples of 4.
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898 </para>
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902 there is an aspect flag that specifies whether it is full-screen (4:3) or
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903 wide-screen (16:9). Many (if not most) widescreen DVDs are not strictly
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904 16:9, and will be either 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 (cinescope). This means that
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905 there will be black bands in the video that will need to be cropped out.
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909 <application>MPlayer</application> provides a crop detection filter that
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910 will determine the crop rectangle (<option>-vf cropdetect</option>).
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911 Run <application>MPlayer</application> with
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912 <option>-vf cropdetect</option> and it will print out the crop
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913 settings to remove the borders.
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914 You should let the movie run long enough that the whole picture
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915 area is used, in order to get accurate crop values.
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918 <para>
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919 Then, test the values you get with <application>MPlayer</application>,
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921 <option>cropdetect</option>, and adjust the rectangle as needed.
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922 The <option>rectangle</option> filter can help by allowing you to
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923 interactively position the crop rectangle over your movie.
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924 Remember to follow the above divisibility guidelines so that you
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925 do not misalign the chroma planes.
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926 </para>
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927
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928 <para>
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929 In certain cases, scaling may be undesirable.
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930 Scaling in the vertical direction is difficult with interlaced
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931 video, and if you wish to preserve the interlacing, you should
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932 usually refrain from scaling.
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933 If you will not be scaling but you still want to use multiple-of-16
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934 dimensions, you will have to overcrop.
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935 Do not undercrop, since black borders are very bad for encoding!
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936 </para>
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938 <para>
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939 Because MPEG-4 uses 16x16 macroblocks, you will want to make sure that each
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940 dimension of the video you are encoding is a multiple of 16 or else you
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941 will be degrading quality, especially at lower bitrates. You can do this
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942 by rounding the width and height of the crop rectangle down to the nearest
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943 multiple of 16.
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944 As stated earlier, when cropping, you will want to increase the Y offset by
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945 half the difference of the old and the new height so that the resulting
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946 video is taken from the center of the frame. And because of the way DVD
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947 video is sampled, make sure the offset is an even number. (In fact, as a
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948 rule, never use odd values for any parameter when you are cropping and
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949 scaling video.) If you are not comfortable throwing a few extra pixels
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950 away, you might prefer instead to scale the video instead. We will look
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951 at this in our example below.
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952 You can actually let the <option>cropdetect</option> filter do all of the
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953 above for you, as it has an optional <option>round</option> parameter that
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954 is equal to 16 by default.
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955 </para>
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958 Also, be careful about "half black" pixels at the edges. Make sure you
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959 crop these out too, or else you will be wasting bits there that
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961 </para>
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963 <para>
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964 After all is said and done, you will probably end up with video whose pixels
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965 are not quite 1.85:1 or 2.35:1, but rather something close to that. You
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966 could calculate the new aspect ratio manually, but
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967 <application>MEncoder</application> offers an option for <systemitem
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968 class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> called <option>autoaspect</option>
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969 that will do this for you. Absolutely do not scale this video up in order to
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970 square the pixels unless you like to waste your hard disk space. Scaling
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971 should be done on playback, and the player will use the aspect stored in
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972 the AVI to determine the correct resolution.
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973 Unfortunately, not all players enforce this auto-scaling information,
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974 therefore you may still want to rescale.
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975 </para>
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979 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-resolution-bitrate">
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980 <title>Choosing resolution and bitrate</title>
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982 <para>
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983 If you will not be encoding in constant quantizer mode, you need to
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984 select a bitrate.
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985 The concept of bitrate is quite simple.
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986 It is the (average) number of bits that will be consumed to store your
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987 movie, per second.
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988 Normally bitrate is measured in kilobits (1000 bits) per second.
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989 The size of your movie on disk is the bitrate times the length of the
c1dd920e736c New item: "Choosing resolution and bitrate", from Rich's encoding guide
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990 movie in time, plus a small amount of "overhead" (see the section on
c1dd920e736c New item: "Choosing resolution and bitrate", from Rich's encoding guide
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991 <link linkend="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-muxing-avi-limitations">the AVI container</link>
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992 for instance).
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993 Other parameters such as scaling, cropping, etc. will
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994 <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> alter the file size unless you
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995 change the bitrate as well!.
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996 </para>
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997 <para>
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998 Bitrate does <emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> scale proportionally
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999 to resolution.
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1000 That is to say, a 320x240 file at 200 kbit/sec will not be the same
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1001 quality as the same movie at 640x480 and 800 kbit/sec!
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1002 There are two reasons for this:
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1003 <orderedlist>
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1004 <listitem><para>
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1005 <emphasis role="bold">Perceptual</emphasis>: You notice MPEG
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1006 artifacts more if they are scaled up bigger!
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1007 Artifacts appear on the scale of blocks (8x8).
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1008 Your eye will not see errors in 4800 small blocks as easily as it
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1009 sees errors in 1200 large blocks (assuming you will be scaling both
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1010 to fullscreen).
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1011 </para></listitem>
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1012 <listitem><para>
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1013 <emphasis role="bold">Theoretical</emphasis>: When you scale down
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1014 an image but still use the same size (8x8) blocks for the frequency
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1015 space transform, you move more data to the high frequency bands.
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1016 Roughly speaking, each pixel contains more of the detail than it
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1017 did before.
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1018 So even though your scaled-down picture contains 1/4 the information
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1019 in the spacial directions, it could still contain a large portion
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1020 of the information in the frequency domain (assuming that the high
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1021 frequencies were underutilized in the original 640x480 image).
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1022 </para></listitem>
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1023 </orderedlist>
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1024 </para>
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1025 <para>
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1026 Past guides have recommended choosing a bitrate and resolution based
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1027 on a "bits per pixel" approach, but this is usually not valid due to
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1028 the above reasons.
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1029 A better estimate seems to be that bitrates scale proportional to the
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1030 square root of resolution, so that 320x240 and 400 kbit/sec would be
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1031 comparable to 640x480 at 800 kbit/sec.
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1032 However this has not been verified with theoretical or empirical
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1033 rigor.
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1034 Further, given that movies vary greatly with regard to noise, detail,
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1035 degree of motion, etc., it is futile to make general recommendations
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1036 for bits per length-of-diagonal (the analog of bits per pixel,
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1037 using the square root).
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1038 </para>
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1039 <para>
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1040 So far we have discussed the difficulty of choosing a bitrate and
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1041 resolution.
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1042 </para>
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1043
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1044
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1045 <sect3 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-resolution-bitrate-compute">
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1046 <title>Computing the resolution</title>
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1047 <para>
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1048 The following steps will guide you in computing the resolution of your
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1049 encode without distorting the video too much, by taking into account several
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1050 types of information about the source video.
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1051 First, you should compute the encoded aspect ratio:
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1052 <systemitem>ARc = (Wc x (ARa / PRdvd )) / Hc</systemitem>
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1053 <itemizedlist>
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1054 <title>where:</title>
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1055 <listitem><para>
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1056 Wc and Hc are the width and height of the cropped video,
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1057 </para></listitem>
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1058 <listitem><para>
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1059 ARa is the displayed aspect ratio, which usually is 4/3 or 16/9,
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1060 </para></listitem>
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1061 <listitem><para>
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1062 PRdvd is the pixel ratio of the DVD which is equal to 1.25=(720/576) for PAL
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1063 DVDs and 1.5=(720/480) for NTSC DVDs,
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1064 </para></listitem>
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1065 </itemizedlist>
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1066 </para>
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1067
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1068 <para>
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1069 Then, you can compute the X and Y resolution, according to a certain
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1070 Compression Quality (CQ) factor:
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1071 <systemitem>ResY = INT(SQRT( 1000*Bitrate/25/ARc/CQ )/16) * 16</systemitem>
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1072 and
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1073 <systemitem>ResX = INT( ResY * ARc / 16) * 16</systemitem>
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1074 </para>
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1075
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1076 <para>
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1077 Okay, but what is the CQ?
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1078 The CQ represents the number of bits per pixel and per frame of the encode.
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1079 Roughly speaking, the greater the CQ, the less the likelihood to see
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1080 encoding artifacts.
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1081 However, if you have a target size for your movie (1 or 2 CDs for instance),
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1082 there is a limited total number of bits that you can spend; therefore it is
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1083 necessary to find a good tradeoff between compressibility and quality.
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1084 </para>
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1085
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1086 <para>
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1087 The CQ depends on the bitrate, the video codec efficiency and the
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1088 movie resolution.
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1089 In order to raise the CQ, typically you would downscale the movie given that the
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1090 bitrate is computed in function of the target size and the length of the
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1091 movie, which are constant.
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1092 With MPEG-4 ASP codecs such as <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>
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1093 and <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>, a CQ below 0.18
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1094 usually results in a pretty blocky picture, because there
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1095 are not enough bits to code the information of each macroblock. (MPEG4, like
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1096 many other codecs, groups pixels by blocks of several pixels to compress the
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1097 image; if there are not enough bits, the edges of those blocks are
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1098 visible.)
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1099 It is therefore wise to take a CQ ranging from 0.20 to 0.22 for a 1 CD rip,
17103
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1100 and 0.26-0.28 for 2 CDs rip with standard encoding options.
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1101 More advanced encoding options such as those listed here for
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1102 <link linkend="menc-feat-mpeg4-lavc-example-settings"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>
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1103 and
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1104 <link linkend="menc-feat-xvid-example-settings"><systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem></link>
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1105 should make it possible to get the same quality with CQ ranging from
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1106 0.18 to 0.20 for a 1 CD rip, and 0.24 to 0.26 for a 2 CD rip.
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1107 With MPEG-4 ASP codecs such as <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem>,
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1108 you can use a CQ ranging from 0.14 to 0.16 with standard encoding options,
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1109 and should be able to go as low as 0.10 to 0.12 with
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1110 <link linkend="menc-feat-x264-example-settings"><systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem>'s advanced encoding settings</link>.
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1111 </para>
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1112
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1113 <para>
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1114 Please take note that the CQ is just an indicative figure, as depending on
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1115 the encoded content, a CQ of 0.18 may look just fine for a Bergman, contrary
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1116 to a movie such as The Matrix, which contains many high-motion scenes.
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1117 On the other hand, it is worthless to raise CQ higher than 0.30 as you would
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1118 be wasting bits without any noticeable quality gain.
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1119 Also note that as mentioned earlier in this guide, low resolution videos
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1120 need a bigger CQ (compared to, for instance, DVD resolution) to look good.
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1121 </para>
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1122 </sect3>
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1123
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1124 </sect2>
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1125
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1126 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-filtering">
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1127 <title>Filtering</title>
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1128
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1129 <para>
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1130 Learning how to use <application>MEncoder</application>'s video filters
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1131 is essential to producing good encodes.
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1132 All video processing is performed through the filters -- cropping,
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1133 scaling, color adjustment, noise removal, sharpening, deinterlacing,
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1134 telecine, inverse telecine, and deblocking, just to name a few.
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1135 Along with the vast number of supported input formats, the variety of
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1136 filters available in <application>MEncoder</application> is one of its
e56a9eacfbc7 General note about filtering from Rich's encoding guide
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1137 main advantages over other similar programs.
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1138 </para>
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1139
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1140 <para>
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1141 Filters are loaded in a chain using the -vf option:
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1142
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1143 <screen>-vf filter1=options,filter2=options,...</screen>
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1144
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1145 Most filters take several numeric options separated by colons, but
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1146 the syntax for options varies from filter to filter, so read the man
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1147 page for details on the filters you wish to use.
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1148 </para>
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1149
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1150 <para>
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1151 Filters operate on the video in the order they are loaded.
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1152 For example, the following chain:
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1153
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1154 <screen>-vf crop=688:464:12:4,scale=640:464</screen>
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1155
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1156 will first crop the 688x464 region of the picture with upper-left
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1157 corner at (12,4), and then scale the result down to 640x464.
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1158 </para>
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1159
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1160 <para>
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1161 Certain filters need to be loaded at or near the beginning of the
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1162 filter chain, in order to take advantage of information from the
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1163 video decoder that will be lost or invalidated by other filters.
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1164 The principal examples are <option>pp</option> (postprocessing, only
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1165 when it is performing deblock or dering operations),
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1166 <option>spp</option> (another postprocessor to remove MPEG artifacts),
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1167 <option>pullup</option> (inverse telecine), and
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1168 <option>softpulldown</option> (for converting soft telecine to hard
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1169 telecine).
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1170 </para>
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1171
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1172 <para>
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1173 In general, you want to do as little filtering as possible to the movie
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1174 in order to remain close to the original DVD source. Cropping is often
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1175 necessary (as described above), but avoid to scale the video. Although
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1176 scaling down is sometimes preferred to using higher quantizers, we want
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1177 to avoid both these things: remember that we decided from the start to
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1178 trade bits for quality.
16080
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1179 </para>
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1180
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1181 <para>
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1182 Also, do not adjust gamma, contrast, brightness, etc. What looks good
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1183 on your display may not look good on others. These adjustments should
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1184 be done on playback only.
16080
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1185 </para>
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1186
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1187 <para>
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1188 One thing you might want to do, however, is pass the video through a
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1189 very light denoise filter, such as <option>-vf hqdn3d=2:1:2</option>.
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1190 Again, it is a matter of putting those bits to better use: why waste them
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1191 encoding noise when you can just add that noise back in during playback?
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1192 Increasing the parameters for <option>hqdn3d</option> will further
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1193 improve compressibility, but if you increase the values too much, you
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1194 risk degrading the image visibily. The suggested values above
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1195 (<option>2:1:2</option>) are quite conservative; you should feel free to
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1196 experiment with higher values and observe the results for yourself.
16080
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1197 </para>
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1198
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1199 </sect2>
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1200
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1201
16080
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1202 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-interlacing">
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1203 <title>Interlacing and Telecine</title>
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1204
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1205 <para>
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1206 Almost all movies are shot at 24 fps. Because NTSC is 30000/1001 fps, some
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1207 processing must be done to this 24 fps video to make it run at the correct
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1208 NTSC framerate. The process is called 3:2 pulldown, commonly referred to
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1209 as telecine (because pulldown is often applied during the telecine
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1210 process), and, naively described, it works by slowing the film down to
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1211 24000/1001 fps, and repeating every fourth frame.
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1212 </para>
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1213
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1214 <para>
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1215 No special processing, however, is done to the video for PAL DVDs, which
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diff changeset
1216 run at 25 fps. (Technically, PAL can be telecined, called 2:2 pulldown,
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1217 but this does not become an issue in practice.) The 24 fps film is simply
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1218 played back at 25 fps. The result is that the movie runs slightly faster,
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1219 but unless you are an alien, you probably will not notice the difference.
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1220 Most PAL DVDs have pitch-corrected audio, so when they are played back at
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diff changeset
1221 25 fps things will sound right, even though the audio track (and hence the
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diff changeset
1222 whole movie) has a running time that is 4% less than NTSC DVDs.
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1223 </para>
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diff changeset
1224
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1225 <para>
16340
5ceeeb85804c Avoid short forms.
diego
parents: 16339
diff changeset
1226 Because the video in a PAL DVD has not been altered, you need not worry
16080
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diff changeset
1227 much about framerate. The source is 25 fps, and your rip will be 25
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1228 fps. However, if you are ripping an NTSC DVD movie, you may need to
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diff changeset
1229 apply inverse telecine.
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diff changeset
1230 </para>
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diff changeset
1231
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diff changeset
1232 <para>
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diff changeset
1233 For movies shot at 24 fps, the video on the NTSC DVD is either telecined
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diff changeset
1234 30000/1001, or else it is progressive 24000/1001 fps and intended to be telecined
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diff changeset
1235 on-the-fly by a DVD player. On the other hand, TV series are usually
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diff changeset
1236 only interlaced, not telecined. This is not a hard rule: some TV series
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diff changeset
1237 are interlaced (such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer) whereas some are a
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diff changeset
1238 mixture of progressive and interlaced (such as Angel, or 24).
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diff changeset
1239 </para>
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diff changeset
1240
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diff changeset
1241 <para>
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diff changeset
1242 It is highly recommended that you read the section on
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diff changeset
1243 <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine">How to deal with telecine and interlacing in NTSC DVDs</link>
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diff changeset
1244 to learn how to handle the different possibilities.
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diff changeset
1245 </para>
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diff changeset
1246
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diff changeset
1247 <para>
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diff changeset
1248 However, if you are mostly just ripping movies, likely you are either
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diff changeset
1249 dealing with 24 fps progressive or telecined video, in which case you can
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diff changeset
1250 use the <option>pullup</option> filter <option>-vf
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diff changeset
1251 pullup,softskip</option>.
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diff changeset
1252 </para>
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diff changeset
1253
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diff changeset
1254 </sect2>
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diff changeset
1255
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diff changeset
1256 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-encoding-interlaced">
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diff changeset
1257 <title>Encoding interlaced video</title>
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diff changeset
1258
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diff changeset
1259 <para>
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diff changeset
1260 If the movie you want to encode is interlaced (NTSC video or
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diff changeset
1261 PAL video), you will need to choose whether you want to
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diff changeset
1262 deinterlace or not.
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diff changeset
1263 While deinterlacing will make your movie usable on progressive
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diff changeset
1264 scan displays such a computer monitors and projectors, it comes
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diff changeset
1265 at a cost: The fieldrate of 50 or 60000/1001 fields per second
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diff changeset
1266 is halved to 25 or 30000/1001 frames per second, and roughly half of
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diff changeset
1267 the information in your movie will be lost during scenes with
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diff changeset
1268 significant motion.
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diff changeset
1269 </para>
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diff changeset
1270
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diff changeset
1271 <para>
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diff changeset
1272 Therefore, if you are encoding for high quality archival purposes,
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diff changeset
1273 it is recommended not to deinterlace.
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1274 You can always deinterlace the movie at playback time when
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1275 displaying it on progressive scan devices.
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1276 The power of currently available computers forces players to use a
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1277 deinterlacing filter, which results in a slight degradation in
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1278 image quality.
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1279 But future players will be able to mimic the interlaced display of
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1280 a TV, deinterlacing to full fieldrate and interpolating 50 or
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1281 60000/1001 entire frames per second from the interlaced video.
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1282 </para>
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1283
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1284 <para>
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1285 Special care must be taken when working with interlaced video:
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1286 </para>
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1287
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1288 <orderedlist>
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1289 <listitem><para>
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1290 Crop height and y-offset must be multiples of 4.
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1291 </para></listitem>
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1292 <listitem><para>
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1293 Any vertical scaling must be performed in interlaced mode.
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1294 </para></listitem>
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1295 <listitem><para>
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1296 Postprocessing and denoising filters may not work as expected
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1297 unless you take special care to operate them a field at a time,
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1298 and they may damage the video if used incorrectly.
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1299 </para></listitem>
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1300 </orderedlist>
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1301
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1302 <para>
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1303 With these things in mind, here is our first example:
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1304 </para>
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1305 <screen>
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1306 mencoder <replaceable>capture.avi</replaceable> -mc 0 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts \
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1307 vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=6000:ilme:ildct:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224
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1308 </screen>
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1309 <para>
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1310 Note the <option>ilme</option> and <option>ildct</option> options.
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1311 </para>
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1312 </sect2>
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1313
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1314
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1315 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-av-sync">
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1316 <title>Notes on Audio/Video synchronization</title>
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1317 <para>
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1318 <application>MEncoder</application>'s audio/video synchronization
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1319 algorithms were designed with the intention of recovering files with
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1320 broken sync.
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1321 However, in some cases they can cause unnecessary skipping and duplication of
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3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1322 frames, and possibly slight A/V desync, when used with proper input
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1323 (of course, A/V sync issues apply only if you process or copy the
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3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1324 audio track while transcoding the video, which is strongly encouraged).
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1325 Therefore, you may have to switch to basic A/V sync with
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1326 the <option>-mc 0</option> option, or put this in your
9d772123c27d New section: Notes on Audio/Video synchronization, taken from Rich's encoding guide
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1327 <systemitem>~/.mplayer/mencoder</systemitem> config file, as long as
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1328 you are only working with good sources (DVD, TV capture, high quality
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1329 MPEG-4 rips, etc) and not broken ASF/RM/MOV files.
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1330 </para>
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1331 <para>
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1332 If you want to further guard against strange frame skips and
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1333 duplication, you can use both <option>-mc 0</option> and
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1334 <option>-noskip</option>.
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1335 This will prevent <emphasis>all</emphasis> A/V sync, and copy frames
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1336 one-to-one, so you cannot use it if you will be using any filters that
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1337 unpredictably add or drop frames, or if your input file has variable
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1338 framerate!
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1339 Therefore, using <option>-noskip</option> is not in general recommended.
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1340 </para>
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1341 <para>
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1342 The so-called "three-pass" audio encoding which <application>MEncoder</application>
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1343 supports has been reported to cause A/V desync.
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1344 This will definitely happen if it is used in conjunction with certain
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1345 filters, therefore, it is now recommended <emphasis>not</emphasis> to
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1346 use three-pass audio mode.
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1347 This feature is only left for compatibility purposes and for expert
9d772123c27d New section: Notes on Audio/Video synchronization, taken from Rich's encoding guide
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1348 users who understand when it is safe to use and when it is not.
9d772123c27d New section: Notes on Audio/Video synchronization, taken from Rich's encoding guide
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1349 If you have never heard of three-pass mode before, forget that we
9d772123c27d New section: Notes on Audio/Video synchronization, taken from Rich's encoding guide
gpoirier
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1350 even mentioned it!
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1351 </para>
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1352 <para>
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1353 There have also been reports of A/V desync when encoding from stdin
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1354 with <application>MEncoder</application>.
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1355 Do not do this! Always use a file or CD/DVD/etc device as input.
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1356 </para>
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1357 </sect2>
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1358
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1359 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-codec">
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gpoirier
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1360 <title>Choosing the video codec</title>
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1361
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1362 <para>
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1363 Which video codec is best to choose depends on several factors,
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
gpoirier
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1364 like size, quality, streamability, usability and popularity, some of
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1365 which widely depend on personal taste and technical constraints.
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1366 </para>
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1367 <itemizedlist>
4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1368 <listitem><para>
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1369 <emphasis role="bold">Compression efficiency</emphasis>:
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1370 It is quite easy to understand that most newer-generation codecs are
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
gpoirier
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1371 made to increase quality and compression.
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1372 Therefore, the authors of this guide and many other people suggest that
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1373 you cannot go wrong
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4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1374 <footnote id='fn-menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-codec-cpu'>
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1375 <para>Be careful, however: Decoding DVD-resolution MPEG-4 AVC videos
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diego
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1376 requires a fast machine (i.e. a Pentium 4 over 1.5GHz or a Pentium M
50113e22db17 Fix hz vs Hz typo.
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1377 over 1GHz).
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1378 </para></footnote>
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1379 when choosing MPEG-4 AVC codecs like
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4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1380 <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> instead of MPEG-4 ASP codecs
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1381 such as <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> MPEG-4 or
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1382 <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>.
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1383 (Advanced codec developers may be interested in reading Michael
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1384 Niedermayer's opinion on
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1385 "<ulink url="http://guru.multimedia.cx/?p=10">why MPEG4-ASP sucks</ulink>".)
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1386 Likewise, you should get better quality using MPEG-4 ASP than you
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1387 would with MPEG-2 codecs.
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1388 </para>
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1389 <para>
4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1390 However, newer codecs which are in heavy development can suffer from
4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1391 bugs which have not yet been noticed and which can ruin an encode.
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1392 This is simply the tradeoff for using bleeding-edge technology.
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1393 </para>
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1394 <para>
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1395 What is more, beginning to use a new codec requires that you spend some
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1396 time becoming familiar with its options, so that you know what
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4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1397 to adjust to achieve a desired picture quality.
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1398 </para></listitem>
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1399
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1400 <listitem><para>
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1401 <emphasis role="bold">Hardware compatibility</emphasis>:
4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1402 It usually takes a long time for standalone video players to begin to
4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1403 include support for the latest video codecs.
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1404 As a result, most only support MPEG-1 (like VCD, XVCD and KVCD), MPEG-2
7c700dc8e37d Gives some examples of in which form MPEG* videos can come
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1405 (like DVD, SVCD and KVCD) and MPEG-4 ASP (like DivX,
7c700dc8e37d Gives some examples of in which form MPEG* videos can come
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1406 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s LMP4 and
7c700dc8e37d Gives some examples of in which form MPEG* videos can come
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1407 <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>)
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1408 (Beware: Usually, not all MPEG-4 ASP features are supported).
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1409 Please refer to the technical specs of your player (if they are available),
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1410 or google around for more information.
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1411 </para></listitem>
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1412
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1413 <listitem><para>
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1414 <emphasis role="bold">Best quality per encoding time</emphasis>:
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1415 Codecs that have been around for some time (such as
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1416 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> MPEG-4 and
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1417 <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>) are usually heavily
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1418 optimized with all kinds of smart algorithms and SIMD assembly code.
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1419 That is why they tend to yield the best quality per encoding time ratio.
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1420 However, they may have some very advanced options that, if enabled,
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1421 will make the encode really slow for marginal gains.
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1422 </para>
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1423 <para>
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1424 If you are after blazing speed you should stick around the default
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1425 settings of the video codec (although you should still try the other
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1426 options which are mentioned in other sections of this guide).
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1427 </para>
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1428 <para>
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1429 You may also consider choosing a codec which can do multi-threaded
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1430 processing, though this is only useful for users of machines with
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1431 several CPUs.
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1432 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> MPEG-4 does
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1433 allow that, but speed gains are limited, and there is a slight
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1434 negative effect on picture quality.
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1435 <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>'s multi-threaded encoding,
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9376e7b470d6 10l to Guillaume. It's <option>, not <options>. xmllint would've told you that.
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1436 activated by the <option>threads</option> option, can be used to
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1437 boost encoding speed &mdash; by about 40-60% in typical cases &mdash;
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1438 with little if any picture degradation.
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1439 <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> also allows multi-threaded
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1440 encoding, which currently speeds up encoding by 15-30% (depending on
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1441 the encoding settings) while lowering PSNR by about 0.05dB.
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1442 </para></listitem>
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1443
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1444 <listitem><para>
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1445 <emphasis role="bold">Personal taste</emphasis>:
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1446 This is where it gets almost irrational: For the same reason that some
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1447 hung on to DivX&nbsp;3 for years when newer codecs were already doing wonders,
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1448 some folks will prefer <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>
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1449 or <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> MPEG-4 over
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1450 <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem>.
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1451 </para>
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1452 <para>
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1453 You should make your own judgement; do not take advice from people who
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1454 swear by one codec.
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1455 Take a few sample clips from raw sources and compare different
7d2a7df681e6 various improvements of the section "Choosing the video codec"
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1456 encoding options and codecs to find one that suits you best.
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1457 The best codec is the one you master, and the one that looks
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1458 best to your eyes on your display
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1459 <footnote id='fn-menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-codec-playback'>
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1460 <para>The same encode may not look the same on someone else's monitor or
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1461 when played back by a different decoder, so future-proof your encodes by
4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1462 playing them back on different setups.</para></footnote>!
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1463 </para></listitem>
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1464 </itemizedlist>
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1465 <para>
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1466 Please refer to the section
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1467 <link linkend="menc-feat-selecting-codec">selecting codecs and container formats</link>
4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1468 to get a list of supported codecs.
4d4878a4c6e5 New section: choosing the video codec for your encode: what to consider before picking it.
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1469 </para>
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1470 </sect2>
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1471
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1472 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-audio">
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1473 <title>Audio</title>
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1474
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1475 <para>
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1476 Audio is a much simpler problem to solve: if you care about quality, just
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1477 leave it as is.
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1478 Even AC3 5.1 streams are at most 448Kbit/s, and they are worth every bit.
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1479 You might be tempted to transcode the audio to high quality Vorbis, but
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1480 just because you do not have an A/V receiver for AC3 pass-through today
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1481 does not mean you will not have one tomorrow. Future-proof your DVD rips by
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1482 preserving the AC3 stream.
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1483 You can keep the AC3 stream either by copying it directly into the video
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1484 stream <link linkend="menc-feat-mpeg4">during the encoding</link>.
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1485 You can also extract the AC3 stream in order to mux it into containers such
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1486 as NUT or Matroska.
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1487 <screen>mplayer <replaceable>source_file.vob</replaceable> -aid 129 -dumpaudio -dumpfile <replaceable>sound.ac3</replaceable></screen>
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1488 will dump into the file <replaceable>sound.ac3</replaceable> the
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1489 audio track number 129 from the file
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1490 <replaceable>source_file.vob</replaceable> (NB: DVD VOB files
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1491 usually use a different audio numbering,
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1492 which means that the VOB audio track 129 is the 2nd audio track of the file).
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1493 </para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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1494
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1495 <para>
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1496 But sometimes you truly have no choice but to further compress the
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1497 sound so that more bits can be spent on the video.
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1498 Most people choose to compress audio with either MP3 or Vorbis audio
6c16b60516f3 Moves the "audio" section just before the "muxing" section. + fixes suggested by Jeff
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1499 codecs.
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1500 While the latter is a very space-efficient codec, MP3 is better supported
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1501 by hardware players, although this trend is changing.
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1502 </para>
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1503
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1504 <para>
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1505 Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> use <option>-nosound</option> when encoding
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1506 a file with audio, even if you will be encoding and muxing audio
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1507 separately later.
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1508 Though it may work in ideal cases, using <option>-nosound</option> is
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1509 likely to hide some problems in your encoding command line setting.
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1510 In other words, having a soundtrack during your encode assures you that,
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1511 provided you do not see messages such as
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1512 <quote>Too many audio packets in the buffer</quote>, you will be able
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1513 to get proper sync.
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1514 </para>
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
gpoirier
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1515
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1516 <para>
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1517 You need to have <application>MEncoder</application> process the sound.
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1518 You can for example copy the orignal soundtrack during the encode with
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1519 <option>-oac copy</option> or convert it to a "light" 4 kHz mono WAV
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1520 PCM with <option>-oac pcm -channels 1 -srate 4000</option>.
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1521 Otherwise, in some cases, it will generate a video file that will not sync
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1522 with the audio.
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1523 Such cases are when the number of video frames in the source file does
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1524 not match up to the total length of audio frames or whenever there
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1525 are discontinuities/splices where there are missing or extra audio frames.
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1526 The correct way to handle this kind of problem is to insert silence or
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1527 cut audio at these points.
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1528 However <application>MPlayer</application> cannot do that, so if you
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1529 demux the AC3 audio and encode it with a separate app (or dump it to PCM with
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1530 <application>MPlayer</application>), the splices will be left incorrect
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1531 and the only way to correct them is to drop/dup video frames at the
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1532 splice.
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1533 As long as <application>MEncoder</application> sees the audio when it is
8f347723d3b3 Fixes suggested by Diego
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1534 encoding the video, it can do this dropping/duping (which is usually OK
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1535 since it takes place at full black/scenechange, but if
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1536 <application>MEncoder</application> cannot see the audio, it will just
8f347723d3b3 Fixes suggested by Diego
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1537 process all frames as-is and they will not fit the final audio stream when
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1538 you for example merge your audio and video track into a Matroska file.
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1539 </para>
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1540
3cc0d81806bf In order to make sure A/V sync is preserved, MEncoder really has to be fed with an audio track.
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1541 <para>
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1542 First of all, you will have to convert the DVD sound into a WAV file that the
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1543 audio codec can use as input.
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1544 For example:
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1545 <screen>mplayer <replaceable>source_file.vob</replaceable> -ao pcm:file=<replaceable>destination_sound.wav</replaceable> -vc dummy -aid 1 -vo null</screen>
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1546 will dump the second audio track from the file
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1547 <replaceable>source_file.vob</replaceable> into the file
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1548 <replaceable>destination_sound.wav</replaceable>.
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1549 You may want to normalize the sound before encoding, as DVD audio tracks
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1550 are commonly recorded at low volumes.
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1551 You can use the tool <application>normalize</application> for instance,
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1552 which is available in most distributions.
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1553 If you are using Windows, a tool such as <application>BeSweet</application>
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1554 can do the same job.
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1555 You will compress in either Vorbis or MP3.
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1556 For example:
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1557 <screen>oggenc -q1 <replaceable>destination_sound.wav</replaceable></screen>
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1558 will encode <replaceable>destination_sound.wav</replaceable> with
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1559 the encoding quality 1, which is roughly equivalent to 80Kb/s, and
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1560 is the minimum quality at which you should encode if you care about
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1561 quality.
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1562 Please note that MEncoder currently cannot mux Vorbis audio tracks
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1563 into the output file because it only supports AVI and MPEG
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1564 containers as an output, each of which may lead to audio/video
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1565 playback synchronization problems with some players when the AVI file
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1566 contain VBR audio streams such as Vorbis.
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1567 Do not worry, this document will show you how you can do that with third
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1568 party programs.
16080
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1569 </para>
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1570
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1571 </sect2>
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1572
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1573
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1574 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-muxing">
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1575 <title>Muxing</title>
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1576 <para>
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1577 Now that you have encoded your video, you will most likely want
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1578 to mux it with one or more audio tracks into a movie container, such
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1579 as AVI, MPEG, Matroska or NUT.
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1580 <application>MEncoder</application> is currently only able to natively output
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1581 audio and video into MPEG and AVI container formats.
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1582 for example:
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1583 <screen>mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o <replaceable>output_movie.avi</replaceable> -audiofile <replaceable>input_audio.mp2</replaceable> <replaceable>input_video.avi</replaceable></screen>
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1584 This would merge the video file <replaceable>input_video.avi</replaceable>
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1585 and the audio file <replaceable>input_audio.mp2</replaceable>
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1586 into the AVI file <replaceable>output_movie.avi</replaceable>.
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1587 This command works with MPEG-1 layer I, II and III (more commonly known
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1588 as MP3) audio, WAV and a few other audio formats too.
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1589 </para>
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1590
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1591 <para>
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1592 MEncoder features experimental support for
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1593 <systemitem class="library">libavformat</systemitem>, which is a
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1594 library from the FFmpeg project that supports muxing and demuxing
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1595 a variety of containers.
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1596 For example:
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1597 <screen>mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o <replaceable>output_movie.asf</replaceable> -audiofile <replaceable>input_audio.mp2</replaceable> <replaceable>input_video.avi</replaceable> -of lavf -lavfopts format=asf</screen>
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1598 This will do the same thing as the previous example, except that
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1599 the output container will be ASF.
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1600 Please note that this support is highly experimental (but getting
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1601 better every day), and will only work if you compiled
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1602 <application>MPlayer</application> with the support for
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1603 <systemitem class="library">libavformat</systemitem> enabled (which
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1604 means that a pre-packaged binary version will not work in most cases).
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1605 </para>
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1606
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1607
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1608 <sect3 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-muxing-filter-issues">
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1609 <title>Improving muxing and A/V sync reliability</title>
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1610 <para>
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1611 You may experience some serious A/V sync problems while trying to mux
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1612 your video and some audio tracks, where no matter how you adjust the
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1613 audio delay, you will never get proper sync.
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1614 That may happen when you use some video filters that will drop or
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1615 duplicate some frames, like the inverse telecine filters.
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1616 It is strongly encouraged to append the <option>harddup</option> video
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1617 filter at the end of the filter chain to avoid this kind of problem.
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1618 </para>
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1619
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1620 <para>
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1621 Without <option>harddup</option>, if <application>MEncoder</application>
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1622 wants to duplicate a frame, it relies on the muxer to put a mark on the
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1623 container so that the last frame will be displayed again to maintain
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1624 sync while writing no actual frame.
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1625 With <option>harddup</option>, <application>MEncoder</application>
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1626 will instead just push the last frame displayed again into the filter
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1627 chain.
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1628 This means that the encoder receives the <emphasis>exact</emphasis>
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1629 same frame twice, and compresses it.
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1630 This will result in a slightly bigger file, but will not cause problems
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1631 when demuxing or remuxing into other container formats.
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1632 </para>
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1633
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1634 <para>
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1635 You may also have no choice but to use <option>harddup</option> with
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1636 container formats that are not too tightly linked with
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1637 <application>MEncoder</application> such as the ones supported through
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1638 <systemitem class="library">libavformat</systemitem>, which may not
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1639 support frame duplication at the container level.
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1640 </para>
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1641 </sect3>
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1642
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1643
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1644 <sect3 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-muxing-avi-limitations">
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1645 <title>Limitations of the AVI container</title>
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1646 <para>
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1647 Although it is the most widely-supported container format after MPEG-1,
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1648 AVI also has some major drawbacks.
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1649 Perhaps the most obvious is the overhead.
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1650 For each chunk of the AVI file, 24 bytes are wasted on headers and
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1651 index.
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1652 This translates into a little over 5 MB per hour, or 1-2.5%
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1653 overhead for a 700 MB movie. This may not seem like much, but it could
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1654 mean the difference between being able to use 700 kbit/sec video or
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1655 714 kbit/sec, and every bit of quality counts.
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1656 </para>
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1657
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1658 <para>
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1659 In addition this gross inefficiency, AVI also has the following major
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1660 limitations:
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1661 </para>
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1662
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1663 <orderedlist>
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1664 <listitem>
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1665 <para>
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1666 Only fixed-fps content can be stored. This is particularly limiting
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1667 if the original material you want to encode is mixed content, for
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1668 example a mix of NTSC video and film material.
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1669 Actually there are hacks that can be used to store mixed-framerate
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1791 <para>
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1792 <option>-ofps 23.976</option> is incorrect.
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1913 framerate changes when it plays telecined video.
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1914 </para>
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1916 <para>
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1945 per second, the DVD player plays the video without any manipulation.
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1950 the source with the <option>-vf pullup</option> and <option>-v</option>
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1956 source to identify it, which could be useful if you wish to automate
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1957 the encoding procedure, or to carry out said procedure remotely via
f7373277b269 NTSC sources are hard to encode. How to identify telecine content reliably.
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1962
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1963 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-ident-interlaced">
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1964 <title>Interlaced</title>
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1965 <para>
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1966 Interlaced video was originally filmed at 60000/1001 fields per second,
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1967 and stored on the DVD as 30000/1001 frames per second. The interlacing effect
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1968 (often called &quot;combing&quot;) is a result of combining pairs of
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1970 and when they are displayed simultaneously the difference is apparent.
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1971 </para>
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1972
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1973 <para>
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1974 As with telecined video, <application>MPlayer</application> should
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1975 not ever report any framerate changes when playing interlaced content.
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1976 </para>
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1977
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1978 <para>
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1979 When you view an interlaced video closely by frame-stepping with the
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1980 <keycap>.</keycap> key, you will see that every single frame is interlaced.
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1981 </para>
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1982 </sect3>
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1984 <sect3 id="menc-feat-telecine-ident-mixedpt">
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1985 <title>Mixed progressive and telecine</title>
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1988 24000/1001 frames per second, but some parts of it ended up being telecined.
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1994 and &quot;24000/1001 fps progressive NTSC&quot;. Watch the bottom of
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1995 <application>MPlayer</application>'s output to see these messages.
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2041 <para>
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2042 It is often the case, however, that a video that looks progressive
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2105 <application>MEncoder</application>; it ought to work well with
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2106 <application>MEncoder G2</application>, but that is not here yet. You
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2150 <emphasis role="bold">always</emphasis> inverse-telecine before any
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2153 <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine-footnotes">[1]</link>.
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2158 <itemizedlist>
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2159 <listitem><para>
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2160 <option>-vf pullup</option> is designed to inverse-telecine
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2161 telecined material while leaving progressive data alone. In order to
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2162 work properly, <option>pullup</option> <emphasis role="bold">must</emphasis>
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2282 bit more complicated. Instead of every four luma pixels in the
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2283 <emphasis>frame</emphasis> sharing a chroma pixel, every four luma
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2310 <listitem><formalpara>
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2328 <title>About the performance of pullup:</title>
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2366 <row><entry>Video codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
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2375 <row><entry>h261</entry><entry>
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2376 H.261
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2377 </entry></row>
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2402 <row><entry>rv20</entry><entry>
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2403 RealVideo 2.0
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2405 <row><entry>mpeg1video</entry><entry>
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2407 </entry></row>
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2408 <row><entry>mpeg2video</entry><entry>
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2409 MPEG-2 video
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2410 </entry></row>
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2411 <row><entry>huffyuv</entry><entry>
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2412 lossless compression
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2413 </entry></row>
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2414 <row><entry>asv1</entry><entry>
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2415 ASUS Video v1
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2416 </entry></row>
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2417 <row><entry>asv2</entry><entry>
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2418 ASUS Video v2
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2419 </entry></row>
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2420 <row><entry>ffv1</entry><entry>
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2421 FFmpeg's lossless video codec
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2422 </entry></row>
16678
4ebad3313fe6 libavcodec can encode to SVQ1 and RV20.
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2423 <row><entry>svq1</entry><entry>
4ebad3313fe6 libavcodec can encode to SVQ1 and RV20.
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2424 Sorenson video 1
4ebad3313fe6 libavcodec can encode to SVQ1 and RV20.
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2425 </entry></row>
16203
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2426 <row><entry>flv</entry><entry>
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2427 Sorenson H.263 used in Flash Video
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2428 </entry></row>
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2429 <row><entry>dvvideo</entry><entry>
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2430 Sony Digital Video
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2431 </entry></row>
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2432 <row><entry>snow</entry><entry>
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2433 FFmpeg's experimental wavelet-based codec
5506042289b2 Missing codecs that libavcodec supports.
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2434 </entry></row>
16080
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2435 </tbody>
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2436 </tgroup>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2437 </informaltable>
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2438
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2439 The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2440 <literal>vcodec</literal> config, like: <option>-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4</option>
16541
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2441 </para>
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2442 <informalexample>
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
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2443 <para>
16558
1d524afe2f9c Nits and fixes
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2444 An example with MJPEG compression:
16541
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2445 <screen>mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -oac copy</screen>
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2446 </para>
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2447 </informalexample>
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2448 </sect2>
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2449
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2450 <sect2 id="menc-feat-enc-libavcodec-audio-codecs">
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2451 <title><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s audio codecs</title>
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2452 <para>
16535
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2453 <informaltable frame="all">
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2454 <tgroup cols="2">
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2455 <thead>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2456 <row><entry>Audio codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
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2457 </thead>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2458 <tbody>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2459 <row>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2460 <entry>mp2</entry>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2461 <entry>MPEG Layer 2</entry>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2462 </row>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2463 <row>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2464 <entry>ac3</entry>
16539
15563bd0874a minor spelling/wording/grammar fixes
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2465 <entry>AC3, AKA Dolby Digital</entry>
16535
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2466 </row>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2467 <row>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2468 <entry>adpcm_ima_wav</entry>
16539
15563bd0874a minor spelling/wording/grammar fixes
diego
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2469 <entry>IMA adaptive PCM (4 bits per sample, 4:1 compression)</entry>
16535
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2470 </row>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2471 <row>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2472 <entry>sonic</entry>
16539
15563bd0874a minor spelling/wording/grammar fixes
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diff changeset
2473 <entry>experimental lossy/lossless codec</entry>
16535
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2474 </row>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2475 </tbody>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2476 </tgroup>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2477 </informaltable>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2478
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2479 The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
16539
15563bd0874a minor spelling/wording/grammar fixes
diego
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diff changeset
2480 <literal>acodec</literal> option, like: <option>-lavcopts acodec=ac3</option>
16535
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2481 </para>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2482
16541
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2483 <informalexample>
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2484 <para>
16558
1d524afe2f9c Nits and fixes
gpoirier
parents: 16541
diff changeset
2485 An example with AC3 compression:
16541
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2486 <screen>mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=ac3 -ovc copy</screen>
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
gpoirier
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2487 </para>
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
gpoirier
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2488 </informalexample>
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
gpoirier
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2489
16535
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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2490 <para>
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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diff changeset
2491 Contrary to <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s video
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2492 codecs, its audio codecs do not make a wise usage of the bits they are
16539
15563bd0874a minor spelling/wording/grammar fixes
diego
parents: 16535
diff changeset
2493 given as they lack some minimal psychoacoustic model (if at all)
16535
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2494 which most other codec implementations feature.
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
parents: 16502
diff changeset
2495 However, note that all these audio codecs are very fast and work
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2496 out-of-the-box everywhere <application>MEncoder</application> has been
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
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diff changeset
2497 compiled with <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> (which
5c8e764daa25 Document lavc audio codecs
gpoirier
parents: 16502
diff changeset
2498 is the case most of time), and do not depend on external libraries.
16080
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2499 </para>
16541
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
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2500 </sect2>
4a9808f6cacc add some internal links between "codecs supported by mencoder" and
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2501
16080
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2502
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2503 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-lavc-encoding-options">
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2504 <title>Encoding options of libavcodec</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2505
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2506 <para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2507 Ideally, you would probably want to be able to just tell the encoder to switch
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2508 into "high quality" mode and move on.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2509 That would probably be nice, but unfortunately hard to implement as different
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2510 encoding options yield different quality results depending on the source material.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2511 That is because compression depends on the visual properties of the video
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2512 in question.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2513 For example, anime and live action have very different properties and
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2514 thus require different options to obtain optimum encoding.
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2515 The good news is that some options should never be left out, like
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2516 <option>mbd=2</option>, <option>trell</option>, and <option>v4mv</option>.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2517 See below for a detailed description of common encoding options.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2518 </para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2519
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2520
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2521 <itemizedlist>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2522 <title>Options to adjust:</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2523 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2524 <emphasis role="bold">vmax_b_frames</emphasis>: 1 or 2 is good, depending on
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2525 the movie.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2526 Note that if you need to have your encode be decodable by DivX5, you
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2527 need to activate closed GOP support, using
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2528 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s <option>cgop</option>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2529 option, but you need to deactivate scene detection, which
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2530 is not a good idea as it will hurt encode efficiency a bit.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2531 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2532
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2533 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2534 <emphasis role="bold">vb_strategy=1</emphasis>: helps in high-motion scenes.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2535 On some videos, vmax_b_frames may hurt quality, but vmax_b_frames=2 along
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2536 with vb_strategy=1 helps.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2537 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2538
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2539 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2540 <emphasis role="bold">dia</emphasis>: motion search range. Bigger is better
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2541 and slower.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2542 Negative values are a completely different scale.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2543 Good values are -1 for a fast encode, or 2-4 for slower.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2544 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2545
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2546 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2547 <emphasis role="bold">predia</emphasis>: motion search pre-pass.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2548 Not as important as dia. Good values are 1 (default) to 4. Requires preme=2
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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2549 to really be useful.
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2550 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2551
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2552 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
2553 <emphasis role="bold">cmp, subcmp, precmp</emphasis>: Comparison function for
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parents:
diff changeset
2554 motion estimation.
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parents:
diff changeset
2555 Experiment with values of 0 (default), 2 (hadamard), 3 (dct), and 6 (rate
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parents:
diff changeset
2556 distortion).
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parents:
diff changeset
2557 0 is fastest, and sufficient for precmp.
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diff changeset
2558 For cmp and subcmp, 2 is good for anime, and 3 is good for live action.
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parents:
diff changeset
2559 6 may or may not be slightly better, but is slow.
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parents:
diff changeset
2560 </para></listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
2561
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parents:
diff changeset
2562 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
2563 <emphasis role="bold">last_pred</emphasis>: Number of motion predictors to
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parents:
diff changeset
2564 take from the previous frame.
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parents:
diff changeset
2565 1-3 or so help at little speed cost.
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diff changeset
2566 Higher values are slow for no extra gain.
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parents:
diff changeset
2567 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2568
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2569 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2570 <emphasis role="bold">cbp, mv0</emphasis>: Controls the selection of macroblocks.
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parents:
diff changeset
2571 Small speed cost for small quality gain.
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2572 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2573
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2574 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2575 <emphasis role="bold">qprd</emphasis>: adaptive quantization based on the
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2576 macroblock's complexity.
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2577 May help or hurt depending on the video and other options.
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parents:
diff changeset
2578 This can cause artifacts unless you set vqmax to some reasonably small value
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gpoirier
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diff changeset
2579 (6 is good, maybe as low as 4); vqmin=1 should also help.
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2580 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2581
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2582 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2583 <emphasis role="bold">qns</emphasis>: very slow, especially when combined
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diff changeset
2584 with qprd.
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gpoirier
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diff changeset
2585 This option will make the encoder minimize noise due to compression
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diff changeset
2586 artifacts instead of making the encoded video strictly match the source.
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diff changeset
2587 Do not use this unless you have already tweaked everything else as far as it
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parents:
diff changeset
2588 will go and the results still are not good enough.
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parents:
diff changeset
2589 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2590
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2591 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2592 <emphasis role="bold">vqcomp</emphasis>: Tweak ratecontrol.
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2593 What values are good depends on the movie.
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diff changeset
2594 You can safely leave this alone if you want.
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diff changeset
2595 Reducing vqcomp puts more bits on low-complexity scenes, increasing it puts
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diff changeset
2596 them on high-complexity scenes (default: 0.5, range: 0-1. recommended range:
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diff changeset
2597 0.5-0.7).
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diff changeset
2598 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
2599
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diff changeset
2600 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
2601 <emphasis role="bold">vlelim, vcelim</emphasis>: Sets the single coefficient
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diff changeset
2602 elimination threshold for luminance and chroma planes.
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diff changeset
2603 These are encoded separately in all MPEG-like algorithms.
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diff changeset
2604 The idea behind these options is to use some good heuristics to determine
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diff changeset
2605 when the change in a block is less than the threshold you specify, and in
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diff changeset
2606 such a case, to just encode the block as "no change".
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diff changeset
2607 This saves bits and perhaps speeds up encoding. vlelim=-4 and vcelim=9
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diff changeset
2608 seem to be good for live movies, but seem not to help with anime;
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diff changeset
2609 when encoding animation, you should probably leave them unchanged.
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diff changeset
2610 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
2611
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diff changeset
2612 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2613 <emphasis role="bold">qpel</emphasis>: Quarter pixel motion estimation.
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diff changeset
2614 MPEG-4 uses half pixel precision for its motion search by default,
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diff changeset
2615 therefore this option comes with an overhead as more information will be
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diff changeset
2616 stored in the encoded file.
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diff changeset
2617 The compression gain/loss depends on the movie, but it is usually not very
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diff changeset
2618 effective on anime.
16605
58adc79e3feb Random fixes and more coherency
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parents: 16599
diff changeset
2619 qpel always incurs a significant cost in CPU decode time (+25% in
16080
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diff changeset
2620 practice).
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diff changeset
2621 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2622
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2623 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2624 <emphasis role="bold">psnr</emphasis>: does not affect the actual encoding,
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diff changeset
2625 but writes a log file giving the type/size/quality of each frame, and
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diff changeset
2626 prints a summary of PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio) at the end.
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diff changeset
2627 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2628
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2629 </itemizedlist>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2630
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2631 <itemizedlist>
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diff changeset
2632 <title>Options not recommended to play with:</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2633 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2634 <emphasis role="bold">vme</emphasis>: The default is best.
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parents:
diff changeset
2635 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2636
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2637 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2638 <emphasis role="bold">lumi_mask, dark_mask</emphasis>: Psychovisual adaptive
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diff changeset
2639 quantization.
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diff changeset
2640 You do not want to play with those options if you care about quality.
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diff changeset
2641 Reasonable values may be effective in your case, but be warned this is very
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parents:
diff changeset
2642 subjective.
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
2643 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2644
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2645 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2646 <emphasis role="bold">scplx_mask</emphasis>: Tries to prevent blocky
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diff changeset
2647 artifacts, but postprocessing is better.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2648 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2649 </itemizedlist>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
2650 </sect2>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
2651
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2652 <sect2 id="menc-feat-mpeg4-lavc-example-settings">
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
2653 <title>Encoding setting examples</title>
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2654
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2655 <para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2656 The following settings are examples of different encoding
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
2657 option combinations that affect the speed vs quality tradeoff
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
2658 at the same target bitrate.
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
2659 </para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2660
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2661 <para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2662 All the encoding settings were tested on a 720x448 @30000/1001 fps
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2663 video sample, the target bitrate was 900kbps, and the machine was an
20037
50113e22db17 Fix hz vs Hz typo.
diego
parents: 19038
diff changeset
2664 AMD-64 3400+ at 2400 MHz in 64 bits mode.
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
2665 Each encoding setting features the measured encoding speed (in
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
2666 frames per second) and the PSNR loss (in dB) compared to the "very
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2667 high quality" setting.
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2668 Please understand that depending on your source, your machine type
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
2669 and development advancements, you may get very different results.
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2670 </para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2671
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2672 <para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2673 <informaltable frame="all">
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2674 <tgroup cols="4">
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2675 <thead>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2676 <row><entry>Description</entry><entry>Encoding options</entry><entry>speed (in fps)</entry><entry>Relative PSNR loss (in dB)</entry></row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
2677 </thead>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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2678 <tbody>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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diff changeset
2679 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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2680 <entry>Very high quality</entry>
17103
9722eecad127 fixes suggested by The Wanderer and Corey
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2681 <entry><option>vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3:predia=2:dia=2:vmax_b_frames=2:vb_strategy=1:precmp=2:cmp=2:subcmp=2:preme=2:qns=2</option></entry>
16596
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2682 <entry>6fps</entry>
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2683 <entry>0dB</entry>
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2684 </row>
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2685 <row>
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2686 <entry>High quality</entry>
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2687 <entry><option>vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:last_pred=2:dia=-1:vmax_b_frames=2:vb_strategy=1:cmp=3:subcmp=3:precmp=0:vqcomp=0.6:turbo</option></entry>
16596
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2688 <entry>15fps</entry>
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diff changeset
2689 <entry>-0.5dB</entry>
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2690 </row>
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2691 <row>
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2692 <entry>Fast</entry>
16606
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2693 <entry><option>vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:turbo</option></entry>
16596
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2694 <entry>42fps</entry>
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diff changeset
2695 <entry>-0.74dB</entry>
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diff changeset
2696 </row>
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2697 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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diff changeset
2698 <entry>Realtime</entry>
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2699 <entry><option>vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:turbo</option></entry>
16596
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2700 <entry>54fps</entry>
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diff changeset
2701 <entry>-1.21dB</entry>
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diff changeset
2702 </row>
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diff changeset
2703 </tbody>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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diff changeset
2704 </tgroup>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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diff changeset
2705 </informaltable>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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2706 </para>
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2707 </sect2>
16080
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2709 <sect2 id="custommatrices"><title>Custom inter/intra matrices</title>
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2710
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diff changeset
2711 <para>
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diff changeset
2712 With this feature of
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2713 <link linkend="ffmpeg"><systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem></link>
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2714 you are able to set custom inter (I-frames/keyframes) and intra
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2715 (P-frames/predicted frames) matrices. It is supported by many of the codecs:
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2716 <systemitem>mpeg1video</systemitem> and <systemitem>mpeg2video</systemitem>
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2718 </para>
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diff changeset
2719
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2720 <para>
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diff changeset
2721 A typical usage of this feature is to set the matrices preferred by the
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2722 <ulink url="http://www.kvcd.net/">KVCD</ulink> specifications.
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2725 <para>
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2726 The <emphasis role="bold">KVCD &quot;Notch&quot; Quantization Matrix:</emphasis>
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2727 </para>
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2728
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diff changeset
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2730 Intra:
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2732 8 9 12 22 26 27 29 34
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2733 9 10 14 26 27 29 34 37
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2734 12 14 18 27 29 34 37 38
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2735 22 26 27 31 36 37 38 40
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2736 26 27 29 36 39 38 40 48
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2737 27 29 34 37 38 40 48 58
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2738 29 34 37 38 40 48 58 69
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2739 34 37 38 40 48 58 69 79
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2744 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
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2745 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32
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2746 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34
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2747 22 24 26 30 32 32 34 36
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2748 24 26 28 32 34 34 36 38
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2749 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40
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2750 28 30 32 34 36 38 42 42
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2751 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44
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2757 <screen>
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2758 $ mencoder <replaceable>input.avi</replaceable> -o <replaceable>output.avi</replaceable> -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts inter_matrix=...:intra_matrix=...
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2762 <para>
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2764 $ mencoder <replaceable>input.avi</replaceable> -ovc lavc -lavcopts
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2765 vcodec=mpeg2video:intra_matrix=8,9,12,22,26,27,29,34,9,10,14,26,27,29,34,37,
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2766 12,14,18,27,29,34,37,38,22,26,27,31,36,37,38,40,26,27,29,36,39,38,40,48,27,
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2767 29,34,37,38,40,48,58,29,34,37,38,40,48,58,69,34,37,38,40,48,58,69,79
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2768 :inter_matrix=16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,20,22,24,26,
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2769 28,30,32,34,22,24,26,30,32,32,34,36,24,26,28,32,34,34,36,38,26,28,30,32,34,
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2770 36,38,40,28,30,32,34,36,38,42,42,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44 -oac copy -o svcd.mpg
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
2774
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
2776 <sect2 id="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-example">
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diff changeset
2777 <title>Example</title>
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diff changeset
2778
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
2780 So, you have just bought your shiny new copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber
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2781 of Secrets (widescreen edition, of course), and you want to rip this DVD
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2784 omit <option>-ofps 24000/1001</option> (because the output framerate is the
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2785 same as the input framerate), and of course the crop dimensions will be
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diff changeset
2786 different.
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
2789 <para>
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2790 After running <option>mplayer dvd://1</option>, we follow the process
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2791 detailed in the section <link linkend="menc-feat-telecine">How to deal
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2792 with telecine and interlacing in NTSC DVDs</link> and discover that it is
16340
5ceeeb85804c Avoid short forms.
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diff changeset
2793 24000/1001 fps progressive video, which means that we need not use an inverse
16080
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2794 telecine filter, such as <option>pullup</option> or
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2795 <option>filmdint</option>.
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
2798 <para>
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2799 Next, we want to determine the appropriate crop rectangle, so we use the
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2800 cropdetect filter:
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2801
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2802 <screen>mplayer dvd://1 -vf cropdetect</screen>
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2803
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2804 Make sure you seek to a fully filled frame (such as a bright scene), and
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2805 you will see in <application>MPlayer</application>'s console output:
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2807 <screen>crop area: X: 0..719 Y: 57..419 (-vf crop=720:362:0:58)</screen>
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2814 height are a multiple of 16. The width is fine, however the height is
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2815 not. Since we did not fail 7th grade math, we know that the nearest
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2816 multiple of 16 lower than 362 is 352.
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2820 We could just use <option>crop=720:352:0:58</option>, but it would be nice
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2821 to take a little off the top and a little off the bottom so that we
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2822 retain the center. We have shrunk the height by 10 pixels, but we do not
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2824 will adversely affect quality. Instead, we will increase the y-offset by
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2827 <screen>mplayer dvd://1 -vf crop=720:352:0:62</screen>
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2829 Another reason to shave pixels from both the top and the bottom is that we
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2830 ensure we have eliminated any half-black pixels if they exist. Note that if
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2831 your video is telecined, make sure the <option>pullup</option> filter (or
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2832 whichever inverse telecine filter you decide to use) appears in the filter
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2833 chain before you crop. If it is interlaced, deinterlace before cropping.
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2834 (If you choose to preserve the interlaced video, then make sure your
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2835 vertical crop offset is a multiple of 4.)
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2838 <para>
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2839 If you are really concerned about losing those 10 pixels, you might
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2841 The filter chain would look like:
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2842
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2843 <screen>-vf crop=720:362:0:58,scale=720:352</screen>
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2845 Scaling the video down like this will mean that some small amount of
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2846 detail is lost, though it probably will not be perceptible. Scaling up will
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2847 result in lower quality (unless you increase the bitrate). Cropping
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2848 discards those pixels altogether. It is a tradeoff that you will want to
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2849 consider for each circumstance. For example, if the DVD video was made
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2851 sampling corresponds to the way the content was originally recorded.
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2852 </para>
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2854 <para>
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2855 On inspection, we see that our movie has a fair bit of action and high
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2856 amounts of detail, so we pick 2400Kbit for our bitrate.
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2857 </para>
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2858
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2859 <para>
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2860 We are now ready to do the two pass encode. Pass one:
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2861
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2862 <screen>mencoder dvd://1 -ofps 24000/1001 -oac copy -vf pullup,softskip,crop=720:352:0:62,hqdn3d=2:1:2 -ovc lavc \
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2863 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3:autoaspect:vpass=1 \
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2864 -o Harry_Potter_2.avi</screen>
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2866 And pass two is the same, except that we specify <option>vpass=2</option>:
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2874 The options <option>v4mv:mbd=2:trell</option> will greatly increase the
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2875 quality at the expense of encoding time. There is little reason to leave
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2877 <option>cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3</option> select a comparison function that
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2881 source material. For example, if you find
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2884 comparison function via <option>*cmp=10</option>.
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2888 For this movie, the resulting AVI will be 138 minutes long and nearly
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2889 3GB. And because you said that file size does not matter, this is a
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2890 perfectly acceptable size. However, if you had wanted it smaller, you
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2893 2000Kbit, it might not be so noticeable above 2000Kbit. Feel
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2894 free to experiment until you are happy.
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2898 Because we passed the source video through a denoise filter, you may want
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2899 to add some of it back during playback. This, along with the
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2900 <option>spp</option> post-processing filter, drastically improves the
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2902 With <application>MPlayer</application>'s <option>autoq</option> option,
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2903 you can vary the amount of post-processing done by the spp filter
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2904 depending on available CPU. Also, at this point, you may want to apply
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2905 gamma and/or color correction to best suit your display. For example:
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2907 <screen>mplayer Harry_Potter_2.avi -vf spp,noise=9ah:5ah,eq2=1.2 -autoq 3</screen>
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2914 <sect1 id="menc-feat-xvid">
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2915 <title>Encoding with the <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>
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2917 <para>
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2918 <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem> is a free library for
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parents:
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2919 encoding MPEG-4 ASP video streams.
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2920 Before starting to encode, you need to <link linkend="xvid">
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2921 set up <application>MEncoder</application> to support it</link>.
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2922 </para>
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2923 <para>
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2924 This guide mainly aims at featuring the same kind of information
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2925 as x264's encoding guide.
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2926 Therefore, please begin by reading
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2927 <link linkend="menc-feat-x264-encoding-options-intro">the first part</link>
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2928 of that guide.
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2929 </para>
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2930
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diff changeset
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2932 <sect2 id="menc-feat-xvid-intro">
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2933 <title>What options should I use to get the best results?</title>
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2934
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diff changeset
2935 <para>
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2936 Please begin by reviewing the
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2937 <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem> section of
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2938 <application>MPlayer</application>'s man page.
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2939 This section is intended to be a supplement to the man page.
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2940 </para>
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2941 <para>
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2942 The XviD default settings are already a good tradeoff between
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2943 speed and quality, therefore you can safely stick to them if
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2944 the following section puzzles you.
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2945 </para>
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2946 </sect2>
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2947
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2948 <sect2 id="menc-feat-xvid-encoding-options">
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2949 <title>Encoding options of <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem></title>
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2950
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2951 <itemizedlist>
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2952 <listitem><para>
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2953 <emphasis role="bold">vhq</emphasis>
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2954 This setting affects the macroblock decision algorithm, where the
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2955 higher the setting, the wiser the decision.
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2956 The default setting may be safely used for every encode, while
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2957 higher settings always help PSNR but are significantly slower.
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2958 Please note that a better PSNR does not necessarily mean
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2959 that the picture will look better, but tells you that it is
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2960 closer to the original.
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2961 Turning it off will noticeably speed up encoding; if speed is
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2962 critical for you, the tradeoff may be worth it.
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2963 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
2964
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diff changeset
2965 <listitem><para>
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2966 <emphasis role="bold">bvhq</emphasis>
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2967 This does the same job as vhq, but does it on B-frames.
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2968 It has a negligible impact on speed, and slightly improves quality
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2969 (around +0.1dB PSNR).
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2970 </para></listitem>
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2971
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2972 <listitem><para>
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2973 <emphasis role="bold">max_bframes</emphasis>
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2974 A higher number of consecutive allowed B-frames usually improves
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2975 compressibility, although it may also lead to more blocking artifacts.
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2976 The default setting is a good tradeoff between compressibility and
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2977 quality, but you may increase it up to 3 if you are bitrate-starved.
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2978 You may also decrease it to 1 or 0 if you are aiming at perfect
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2979 quality, though in that case you should make sure your
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2980 target bitrate is high enough to ensure that the encoder does not
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2981 have to increase quantizers to reach it.
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2982 </para></listitem>
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2983
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2984 <listitem><para>
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2985 <emphasis role="bold">bf_threshold</emphasis>
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2986 This controls the B-frame sensitivity of the encoder, where a higher
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2987 value leads to more B-frames being used (and vice versa).
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2988 This setting is to be used together with <option>max_bframes</option>;
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2989 if you are bitrate-starved, you should increase both
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2990 <option>max_bframes</option> and <option>bf_threshold</option>,
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2991 while you may increase <option>max_bframes</option> and reduce
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2992 <option>bf_threshold</option> so that the encoder may use more
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2993 B-frames in places that only <emphasis role="bold">really</emphasis>
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2994 need them.
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2995 A low number of <option>max_bframes</option> and a high value of
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2996 <option>bf_threshold</option> is probably not a wise choice as it
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2997 will force the encoder to put B-frames in places that would not
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2998 benefit from them, therefore reducing visual quality.
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2999 However, if you need to be compatible with standalone players that
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3001 consecutive B-frame), this would be your only way to
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3002 increase compressibility through using B-frames.
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3007 Optimizes the quantization process to get an optimal tradeoff
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3008 between PSNR and bitrate, which allows significant bit saving.
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3009 These bits will in return be spent elsewhere on the video,
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3012 Even if you are looking for speed, do not disable it until you
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3014 CPU-hungry options to the minimum.
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3021 than 0.01dB PSNR increase), while having a negligible impact on speed.
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3022 It is therefore recommended to always leave it on.
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3025 <listitem><para>
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3026 <emphasis role="bold">cartoon</emphasis>
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3027 Designed to better encode cartoon content, and has no impact on
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3028 speed as it just tunes the mode decision heuristics for this type
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3030 </para></listitem>
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3032 <listitem><para>
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3033 <emphasis role="bold">me_quality</emphasis>
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3034 This setting is to control the precision of the motion estimation.
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3035 The higher <option>me_quality</option>, the more
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3036 precise the estimation of the original motion will be, and the
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3037 better the resulting clip will capture the original motion.
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3038 </para>
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3039 <para>
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3040 The default setting is best in all cases;
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3041 thus it is not recommended to turn it down unless you are
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3042 really looking for speed, as all the bits saved by a good motion
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parents:
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3043 estimation would be spent elsewhere, raising overall quality.
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3044 Therefore, do not go any lower than 5, and even that only as a last
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
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3045 resort.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
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3046 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3047
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
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3048 <listitem><para>
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3049 <emphasis role="bold">chroma_me</emphasis>
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parents:
diff changeset
3050 Improves motion estimation by also taking the chroma (color)
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3051 information into account, whereas <option>me_quality</option>
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parents:
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3052 alone only uses luma (grayscale).
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parents:
diff changeset
3053 This slows down encoding by 5-10% but improves visual quality
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3054 quite a bit by reducing blocking effects and reduces filesize by
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3055 around 1.3%.
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parents:
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3056 If you are looking for speed, you should disable this option before
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
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3057 starting to consider reducing <option>me_quality</option>.
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parents:
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3058 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3059
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3060 <listitem><para>
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parents:
diff changeset
3061 <emphasis role="bold">chroma_opt</emphasis>
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parents:
diff changeset
3062 Is intended to increase chroma image quality around pure
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3063 white/black edges, rather than improving compression.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3064 This can help to reduce the "red stairs" effect.
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parents:
diff changeset
3065 </para></listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
3066
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parents:
diff changeset
3067 <listitem><para>
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parents:
diff changeset
3068 <emphasis role="bold">lumi_mask</emphasis>
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parents:
diff changeset
3069 Tries to give less bitrate to part of the picture that the
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parents:
diff changeset
3070 human eye cannot see very well, which should allow the encoder
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parents:
diff changeset
3071 to spend the saved bits on more important parts of the picture.
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parents:
diff changeset
3072 The quality of the encode yielded by this option highly depends
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3073 on personal preferences and on the type and monitor settings
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3074 used to watch it (typically, it will not look as good if it is
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3075 bright or if it is a TFT monitor).
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3076 </para></listitem>
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3077
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3078 <listitem><para>
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parents:
diff changeset
3079 <emphasis role="bold">qpel</emphasis>
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parents:
diff changeset
3080 Raise the number of candidate motion vectors by increasing
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3081 the precision of the motion estimation from halfpel to
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3082 quarterpel.
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parents:
diff changeset
3083 The idea is to find better motion vectors which will in return
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3084 reduce bitrate (hence increasing quality).
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3085 However, motion vectors with quarterpel precision require a
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3086 few extra bits to code, but the candidate vectors do not always
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3087 give (much) better results.
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parents:
diff changeset
3088 Quite often, the codec still spends bits on the extra precision,
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parents:
diff changeset
3089 but little or no extra quality is gained in return.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3090 Unfortunately, there is no way to foresee the possible gains of
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3091 <option>qpel</option>, so you need to actually encode with and
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3092 without it to know for sure.
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3093 </para><para>
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3094 <option>qpel</option> can be almost double encoding time, and
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parents:
diff changeset
3095 requires as much as 25% more processing power to decode.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3096 It is not supported by all standalone players.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3097 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3098
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3099 <listitem><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3100 <emphasis role="bold">gmc</emphasis>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3101 Tries to save bits on panning scenes by using a single motion
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3102 vector for the whole frame.
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3103 This almost always raises PSNR, but significantly slows down
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3104 encoding (as well as decoding).
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3105 Therefore, you should only use it when you have turned
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3106 <option>vhq</option> to the maximum.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3107 <systemitem class="library">XviD</systemitem>'s GMC is more
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3108 sophisticated than DivX's, but is only supported by few
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3109 standalone players.
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3110 </para></listitem>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3111
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
3112 </itemizedlist>
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gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
3113 </sect2>
16486
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gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3114
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3115 <sect2 id="menc-feat-xvid-encoding-profiles">
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3116 <title>Encoding profiles</title>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3117 <para>
16502
gpoirier
parents: 16486
diff changeset
3118 XviD supports encoding profiles through the <option>profile</option> option,
16486
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3119 which are used to impose restrictions on the properties of the XviD video
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3120 stream such that it will be playable on anything which supports the
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3121 chosen profile.
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3122 The restrictions relate to resolutions, bitrates and certain MPEG-4
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3123 features.
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3124 The following table shows what each profile supports.
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3125 </para>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3126 <informaltable>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3127 <tgroup cols="16" align="center">
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3128 <colspec colnum="1" colname="col1"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3129 <colspec colnum="2" colname="col2"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3130 <colspec colnum="3" colname="col3"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3131 <colspec colnum="4" colname="col4"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3132 <colspec colnum="5" colname="col5"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3133 <colspec colnum="6" colname="col6"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3134 <colspec colnum="7" colname="col7"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3135 <colspec colnum="8" colname="col8"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3136 <colspec colnum="9" colname="col9"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3137 <colspec colnum="10" colname="col10"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3138 <colspec colnum="11" colname="col11"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3139 <colspec colnum="12" colname="col12"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3140 <colspec colnum="13" colname="col13"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3141 <colspec colnum="14" colname="col14"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3142 <colspec colnum="15" colname="col15"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3143 <colspec colnum="16" colname="col16"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3144 <colspec colnum="17" colname="col17"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3145 <spanspec spanname="spa2-5" namest="col2" nameend="col5"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3146 <spanspec spanname="spa6-11" namest="col6" nameend="col11"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3147 <spanspec spanname="spa12-17" namest="col12" nameend="col17"/>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3148 <tbody>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3149 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3150 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3151 <entry spanname="spa2-5">Simple</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3152 <entry spanname="spa6-11">Advanced Simple</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3153 <entry spanname="spa12-17">DivX</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3154 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3155 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3156 <entry>Profile name</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3157 <entry>0</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3158 <entry>1</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3159 <entry>2</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3160 <entry>3</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3161 <entry>0</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3162 <entry>1</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3163 <entry>2</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3164 <entry>3</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3165 <entry>4</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3166 <entry>5</entry>
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gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3167 <entry>Handheld</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3168 <entry>Portable NTSC</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3169 <entry>Portable PAL</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3170 <entry>Home Theater NTSC</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3171 <entry>Home Theater PAL</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3172 <entry>HDTV</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3173 </row>
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gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3174 <row>
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gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3175 <entry>Width [pixels]</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3176 <entry>176</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3177 <entry>176</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3178 <entry>352</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3179 <entry>352</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3180 <entry>176</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3181 <entry>176</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3182 <entry>352</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3183 <entry>352</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3184 <entry>352</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3185 <entry>720</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3186 <entry>176</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3187 <entry>352</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3188 <entry>352</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3189 <entry>720</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3190 <entry>720</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3191 <entry>1280</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3192 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3193 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3194 <entry>Height [pixels]</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3195 <entry>144</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3196 <entry>144</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3197 <entry>288</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3198 <entry>288</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3199 <entry>144</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3200 <entry>144</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3201 <entry>288</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3202 <entry>288</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3203 <entry>576</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3204 <entry>576</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3205 <entry>144</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3206 <entry>240</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3207 <entry>288</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3208 <entry>480</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3209 <entry>576</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3210 <entry>720</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3211 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3212 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3213 <entry>Frame rate [fps]</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3214 <entry>15</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3215 <entry>15</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3216 <entry>15</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3217 <entry>15</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3218 <entry>30</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3219 <entry>30</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3220 <entry>15</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3221 <entry>30</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3222 <entry>30</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3223 <entry>30</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3224 <entry>15</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3225 <entry>30</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3226 <entry>25</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3227 <entry>30</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3228 <entry>25</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3229 <entry>30</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3230 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3231 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3232 <entry>Max average bitrate [kbps]</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3233 <entry>64</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3234 <entry>64</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3235 <entry>128</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3236 <entry>384</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3237 <entry>128</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3238 <entry>128</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3239 <entry>384</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3240 <entry>768</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3241 <entry>3000</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3242 <entry>8000</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3243 <entry>537.6</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3244 <entry>4854</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3245 <entry>4854</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3246 <entry>4854</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3247 <entry>4854</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3248 <entry>9708.4</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3249 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3250 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3251 <entry>Peak average bitrate over 3 secs [kbps]</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3252 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3253 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3254 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3255 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3256 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3257 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3258 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3259 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3260 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3261 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3262 <entry>800</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3263 <entry>8000</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3264 <entry>8000</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3265 <entry>8000</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3266 <entry>8000</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3267 <entry>16000</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3268 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3269 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3270 <entry>Max. B-frames</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3271 <entry>0</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3272 <entry>0</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3273 <entry>0</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3274 <entry>0</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3275 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3276 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3277 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3278 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3279 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3280 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3281 <entry>0</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3282 <entry>1</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3283 <entry>1</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3284 <entry>1</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3285 <entry>1</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3286 <entry>2</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3287 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3288 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3289 <entry>MPEG quantization</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3290 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3291 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3292 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3293 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3294 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3295 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3296 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3297 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3298 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3299 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3300 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3301 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3302 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3303 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3304 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3305 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3306 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3307 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3308 <entry>Adaptive quantization</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3309 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3310 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3311 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3312 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3313 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3314 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3315 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3316 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3317 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3318 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3319 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3320 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3321 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3322 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3323 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3324 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3325 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3326 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3327 <entry>Interlaced encoding</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3328 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3329 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3330 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3331 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3332 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3333 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3334 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3335 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3336 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3337 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3338 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3339 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3340 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3341 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3342 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3343 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3344 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3345 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3346 <entry>Quaterpixel</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3347 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3348 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3349 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3350 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3351 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3352 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3353 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3354 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3355 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3356 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3357 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3358 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3359 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3360 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3361 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3362 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3363 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3364 <row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3365 <entry>Global motion compensation</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3366 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3367 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3368 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3369 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3370 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3371 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3372 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3373 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3374 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3375 <entry>X</entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3376 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3377 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3378 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3379 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3380 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3381 <entry></entry>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3382 </row>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
diff changeset
3383 </tbody>
e017e67b8660 Illustrate by a nice table what each profiles supported by XviD features.
gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3384 </tgroup>
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gpoirier
parents: 16420
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3385 </informaltable>
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gpoirier
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3386 </sect2>
16596
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gpoirier
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3387
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
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3388 <sect2 id="menc-feat-xvid-example-settings">
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
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3389 <title>Encoding setting examples</title>
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
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3390
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3391 <para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3392 The following settings are examples of different encoding
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
3393 option combinations that affect the speed vs quality tradeoff
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
3394 at the same target bitrate.
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3395 </para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3396
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3397 <para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3398 All the encoding settings were tested on a 720x448 @30000/1001 fps
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3399 video sample, the target bitrate was 900kbps, and the machine was an
20037
50113e22db17 Fix hz vs Hz typo.
diego
parents: 19038
diff changeset
3400 AMD-64 3400+ at 2400 MHz in 64 bits mode.
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
3401 Each encoding setting features the measured encoding speed (in
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
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3402 frames per second) and the PSNR loss (in dB) compared to the "very
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3403 high quality" setting.
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3404 Please understand that depending on your source, your machine type
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
3405 and development advancements, you may get very different results.
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3406 </para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3407
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3408 <para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
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3409 <informaltable frame="all">
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3410 <tgroup cols="4">
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3411 <thead>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
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3412 <row><entry>Description</entry><entry>Encoding options</entry><entry>speed (in fps)</entry><entry>Relative PSNR loss (in dB)</entry></row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3413 </thead>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3414 <tbody>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3415 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3416 <entry>Very high quality</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
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3417 <entry><option>chroma_opt:vhq=4:bvhq=1:quant_type=mpeg</option></entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3418 <entry>16fps</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3419 <entry>0dB</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3420 </row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3421 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3422 <entry>High quality</entry>
16606
7a06ad5c5b2c the "psnr" option doesn't really need to be in the encoding setting examples.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3423 <entry><option>vhq=2:bvhq=1:chroma_opt:quant_type=mpeg</option></entry>
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
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3424 <entry>18fps</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3425 <entry>-0.1dB</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3426 </row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3427 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3428 <entry>Fast</entry>
16606
7a06ad5c5b2c the "psnr" option doesn't really need to be in the encoding setting examples.
gpoirier
parents: 16605
diff changeset
3429 <entry><option>turbo:vhq=0</option></entry>
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3430 <entry>28fps</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3431 <entry>-0.69dB</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3432 </row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3433 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3434 <entry>Realtime</entry>
16606
7a06ad5c5b2c the "psnr" option doesn't really need to be in the encoding setting examples.
gpoirier
parents: 16605
diff changeset
3435 <entry><option>turbo:nochroma_me:notrellis:max_bframes=0:vhq=0</option></entry>
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3436 <entry>38fps</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3437 <entry>-1.48dB</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3438 </row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3439 </tbody>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3440 </tgroup>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3441 </informaltable>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3442 </para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3443 </sect2>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3444
16080
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3445 </sect1>
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3446
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3447 <sect1 id="menc-feat-x264">
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3448 <title>Encoding with the <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> codec</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3449 <para>
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3450 <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> is a free library for
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3451 encoding H.264/AVC video streams.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
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3452 Before starting to encode, you need to <link linkend="codec-x264-encode">
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
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3453 set up <application>MEncoder</application> to support it</link>.
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3454 </para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3455
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3456 <sect2 id="menc-feat-x264-encoding-options">
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3457 <title>Encoding options of x264</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3458
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3459 <para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3460 Please begin by reviewing the
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3461 <systemitem class="library">x264</systemitem> section of
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
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3462 <application>MPlayer</application>'s man page.
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3463 This section is intended to be a supplement to the man page.
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3464 Here you will find quick hints about which options are most
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
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3465 likely to interest most people. The man page is more terse,
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3466 but also more exhaustive, and it sometimes offers much better
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
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3467 technical detail.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3468 </para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3469
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3470 <sect3 id="menc-feat-x264-encoding-options-intro">
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3471 <title>Introduction</title>
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3472 <para>This guide considers two major categories of encoding options:</para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
3473
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3474 <orderedlist>
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3475 <listitem><para>Options which mainly trade off encoding time vs. quality
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3477 <listitem><para>Options which may be useful for fulfilling various personal
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3478 preferences and special requirements</para></listitem>
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3482 Ultimately, only you can decide which options are best for your
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3483 purposes. The decision for the first class of options is the simplest:
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3484 you only have to decide whether you think the quality differences
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3485 justify the speed differences. For the second class of options,
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3486 preferences may be far more subjective, and more factors may be
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3487 involved. Note that some of the "personal preferences and special
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3488 requirements" options can still have large impacts on speed or quality,
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3489 but that is not what they are primarily useful for. A couple of the
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3490 "personal preference" options may even cause changes that look better
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3491 to some people, but look worse to others.
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3492 </para>
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diff changeset
3493
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3494 <para>
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3495 Before continuing, you need to understand that this guide uses only one
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3496 quality metric: global PSNR.
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3497 For a brief explanation of what PSNR is, see
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3499 Global PSNR is the last PSNR number reported when you include
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3500 the <option>psnr</option> option in <option>x264encopts</option>.
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3501 Any time you read a claim about PSNR, one of the assumptions
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3502 behind the claim is that equal bitrates are used.
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3503 </para>
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3504
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3505 <para>
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3506 Nearly all of this guide's comments assume you are using
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3507 two pass.
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3508 When comparing options, there are two major reasons for using
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3509 two pass encoding.
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3510 First, using two pass often gains around 1dB PSNR, which is a
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3511 very big difference.
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3512 Secondly, testing options by doing direct quality comparisons
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3513 with one pass encodes introduces a major confounding
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3514 factor: bitrate often varies significantly with each encode.
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3515 It is not always easy to tell whether quality changes are due
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3516 mainly to changed options, or if they mostly reflect essentially
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3517 random differences in the achieved bitrate.
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3518 </para>
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3519
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3520 </sect3>
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3521
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3522 <sect3 id="menc-feat-x264-encoding-options-speedvquality">
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3523 <title>Options which primarily affect speed and quality</title>
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3524
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3525 <itemizedlist>
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3526 <listitem><para>
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3527 <emphasis role="bold">subq</emphasis>:
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3528 Of the options which allow you to trade off speed for quality,
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3529 <option>subq</option> and <option>frameref</option> (see below) are usually
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3530 by far the most important.
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3531 If you are interested in tweaking either speed or quality, these
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3532 are the first options you should consider.
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3533 On the speed dimension, the <option>frameref</option> and
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3534 <option>subq</option> options interact with each other fairly
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3535 strongly.
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3536 Experience shows that, with one reference frame,
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3537 <option>subq=5</option> (the default setting) takes about 35% more time than
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3538 <option>subq=1</option>.
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3539 With 6 reference frames, the penalty grows to over 60%.
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3540 <option>subq</option>'s effect on PSNR seems fairly constant
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3541 regardless of the number of reference frames.
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3542 Typically, <option>subq=5</option> achieves 0.2-0.5 dB higher global
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3543 PSNR in comparison <option>subq=1</option>.
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3544 This is usually enough to be visible.
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3545 </para>
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3546 <para>
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3547 <option>subq=6</option> is the slowest, highest quality mode.
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3548 In comparison to <option>subq=5</option>, it usually gains 0.1-0.4 dB
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3549 global PSNR with speed costs varying from 25%-100%.
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3550 Unlike other levels of <option>subq</option>, the behavior of
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3551 <option>subq=6</option> does not depend much on <option>frameref</option>
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3552 and <option>me</option>. Instead, the effectiveness of <option>subq=6
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3553 </option> depends mostly upon the number of B-frames used. In normal
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3554 usage, this means <option>subq=6</option> has a large impact on both speed
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3555 and quality in complex, high motion scenes, but it may not have much effect
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3556 in low-motion scenes. Note that it is still recommended to always set
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3557 <option>bframes</option> to something other than zero (see below).
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3558 </para></listitem>
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3559 <listitem><para>
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3560 <emphasis role="bold">frameref</emphasis>:
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3561 <option>frameref</option> is set to 1 by default, but this
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3562 should not be taken to imply that it is reasonable to set it
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3563 to 1.
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3564 Merely raising <option>frameref</option> to 2 gains around
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3565 0.15dB PSNR with a 5-10% speed penalty; this seems like a
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3566 good tradeoff.
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3567 <option>frameref=3</option> gains around 0.25dB PSNR over
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3568 <option>frameref=1</option>, which should be a visible
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3569 difference.
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3570 <option>frameref=3</option> is around 15% slower than
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3571 <option>frameref=1</option>.
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3572 Unfortunately, diminishing returns set in rapidly.
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3573 <option>frameref=6</option> can be expected to gain only
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3574 0.05-0.1 dB over <option>frameref=3</option> at an additional
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3575 15% speed penalty.
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3576 Above <option>frameref=6</option>, the quality gains are
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3577 usually very small (although you should keep in mind throughout
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3578 this whole discussion that it can vary quite a lot depending on
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3579 your source).
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3580 In a fairly typical case, <option>frameref=12</option>
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3582 <option>frameref=6</option>, at a speed cost of 15%-20%.
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3583 At such high <option>frameref</option> values, the only really
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3584 good thing that can be said is that increasing it even further will
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3585 almost certainly never <emphasis role="bold">harm</emphasis>
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3586 PSNR, but the additional quality benefits are barely even
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3588 </para>
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3589 <note><title>Note:</title>
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3590 <para>
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3591 Raising <option>frameref</option> to unnecessarily high values
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3592 <emphasis role="bold">can</emphasis> and
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3593 <emphasis role="bold">usually does</emphasis>
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3594 hurt coding efficiency if you turn CABAC off.
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parents:
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3595 With CABAC on (the default behavior), the possibility of setting
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3596 <option>frameref</option> "too high" currently seems too remote
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3597 to even worry about, and in the future, optimizations may remove
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diff changeset
3598 the possibility altogether.
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diff changeset
3599 </para>
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diff changeset
3600 </note>
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diff changeset
3601 <para>
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3602 If you care about speed, a reasonable compromise is to use low
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3603 <option>subq</option> and <option>frameref</option> values on
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3604 the first pass, and then raise them on the second pass.
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3605 Typically, this has a negligible negative effect on the final
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3606 quality: You will probably lose well under 0.1dB PSNR, which
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3607 should be much too small of a difference to see.
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3608 However, different values of <option>frameref</option> can
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3609 occasionally affect frametype decision.
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3610 Most likely, these are rare outlying cases, but if you want to
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3611 be pretty sure, consider whether your video has either
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3612 fullscreen repetitive flashing patterns or very large temporary
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3613 occlusions which might force an I-frame.
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3614 Adjust the first-pass <option>frameref</option> so it is large
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3615 enough to contain the duration of the flashing cycle (or occlusion).
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diff changeset
3616 For example, if the scene flashes back and forth between two images
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3617 over a duration of three frames, set the first pass
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3618 <option>frameref</option> to 3 or higher.
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3619 This issue is probably extremely rare in live action video material,
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3620 but it does sometimes come up in video game captures.
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diff changeset
3621 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3622
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diff changeset
3623 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3624 <emphasis role="bold">me</emphasis>:
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diff changeset
3625 This option is for choosing the motion estimation search method.
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diff changeset
3626 Altering this option provides a straightforward quality-vs-speed
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diff changeset
3627 tradeoff. <option>me=dia</option> is only a few percent faster than
16080
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diff changeset
3628 the default search, at a cost of under 0.1dB global PSNR. The
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diff changeset
3629 default setting (<option>me=hex</option>) is a reasonable tradeoff
beca75a03355 Update x264 option names that changed with r20060
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diff changeset
3630 between speed and quality. <option>me=umh</option> gains a little under
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diff changeset
3631 0.1dB global PSNR, with a speed penalty that varies depending on
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diff changeset
3632 <option>frameref</option>. At high values of
20254
beca75a03355 Update x264 option names that changed with r20060
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diff changeset
3633 <option>frameref</option> (e.g. 12 or so), <option>me=umh</option>
beca75a03355 Update x264 option names that changed with r20060
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diff changeset
3634 is about 40% slower than the default <option> me=hex</option>. With
16080
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diff changeset
3635 <option>frameref=3</option>, the speed penalty incurred drops to
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diff changeset
3636 25%-30%.
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diff changeset
3637 </para>
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diff changeset
3638 <para>
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beca75a03355 Update x264 option names that changed with r20060
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diff changeset
3639 <option>me=esa</option> uses an exhaustive search that is too slow for
16080
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diff changeset
3640 practical use.
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diff changeset
3641 </para>
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diff changeset
3642 </listitem>
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diff changeset
3643
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diff changeset
3644 <listitem><para>
20271
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diff changeset
3645 <emphasis role="bold">partitions=all</emphasis>:
16080
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diff changeset
3646 This option enables the use of 8x4, 4x8 and 4x4 subpartitions in
20271
bb1bddc32870 Update x264 option names that changed with r20060
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diff changeset
3647 predicted macroblocks (in addition to the default partitions).
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diff changeset
3648 Enabling it results in a fairly consistent
16080
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diff changeset
3649 10%-15% loss of speed. This option is rather useless in source
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diff changeset
3650 containing only low motion, however in some high-motion source,
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diff changeset
3651 particularly source with lots of small moving objects, gains of
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diff changeset
3652 about 0.1dB can be expected.
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diff changeset
3653 </para>
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diff changeset
3654 </listitem>
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diff changeset
3655
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diff changeset
3656 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3657 <emphasis role="bold">bframes</emphasis>:
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diff changeset
3658 If you are used to encoding with other codecs, you may have found
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diff changeset
3659 that B-frames are not always useful.
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3660 In H.264, this has changed: there are new techniques and block
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diff changeset
3661 types that are possible in B-frames.
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diff changeset
3662 Usually, even a naive B-frame choice algorithm can have a
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diff changeset
3663 significant PSNR benefit.
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diff changeset
3664 It is interesting to note that using B-frames usually speeds up
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diff changeset
3665 the second pass somewhat, and may also speed up a single
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diff changeset
3666 pass encode if adaptive B-frame decision is turned off.
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diff changeset
3667 </para>
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diff changeset
3668 <para>
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diff changeset
3669 With adaptive B-frame decision turned off
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diff changeset
3670 (<option>x264encopts</option>'s <option>nob_adapt</option>),
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diff changeset
3671 the optimal value for this setting is usually no more than
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diff changeset
3672 <option>bframes=1</option>, or else high-motion scenes can suffer.
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diff changeset
3673 With adaptive B-frame decision on (the default behavior), it is
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diff changeset
3674 safe to use higher values; the encoder will reduce the use of
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diff changeset
3675 B-frames in scenes where they would hurt compression.
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diff changeset
3676 The encoder rarely chooses to use more than 3 or 4 B-frames;
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diff changeset
3677 setting this option any higher will have little effect.
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diff changeset
3678 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3679
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diff changeset
3680 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3681 <emphasis role="bold">b_adapt</emphasis>:
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diff changeset
3682 Note: This is on by default.
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diff changeset
3683 </para>
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diff changeset
3684 <para>
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diff changeset
3685 With this option enabled, the encoder will use a reasonably fast
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diff changeset
3686 decision process to reduce the number of B-frames used in scenes that
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diff changeset
3687 might not benefit from them as much.
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diff changeset
3688 You can use <option>b_bias</option> to tweak how B-frame-happy
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diff changeset
3689 the encoder is.
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diff changeset
3690 The speed penalty of adaptive B-frames is currently rather modest,
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diff changeset
3691 but so is the potential quality gain.
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diff changeset
3692 It usually does not hurt, however.
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diff changeset
3693 Note that this only affects speed and frametype decision on the
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diff changeset
3694 first pass.
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diff changeset
3695 <option>b_adapt</option> and <option>b_bias</option> have no
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diff changeset
3696 effect on subsequent passes.
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diff changeset
3697 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3698
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diff changeset
3699 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3700 <emphasis role="bold">b_pyramid</emphasis>:
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diff changeset
3701 You might as well enable this option if you are using >=2 B-frames;
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diff changeset
3702 as the man page says, you get a little quality improvement at no
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diff changeset
3703 speed cost.
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diff changeset
3704 Note that these videos cannot be read by libavcodec-based decoders
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diff changeset
3705 older than about March 5, 2005.
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diff changeset
3706 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3707
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diff changeset
3708 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3709 <emphasis role="bold">weight_b</emphasis>:
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diff changeset
3710 In typical cases, there is not much gain with this option.
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diff changeset
3711 However, in crossfades or fade-to-black scenes, weighted
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diff changeset
3712 prediction gives rather large bitrate savings.
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diff changeset
3713 In MPEG-4 ASP, a fade-to-black is usually best coded as a series
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diff changeset
3714 of expensive I-frames; using weighted prediction in B-frames
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diff changeset
3715 makes it possible to turn at least some of these into much smaller
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parents:
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3716 B-frames.
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3717 Encoding time cost is minimal, as no extra decisions need to be made.
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parents:
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3718 Also, contrary to what some people seem to guess, the decoder
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parents:
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3719 CPU requirements are not much affected by weighted prediction,
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diff changeset
3720 all else being equal.
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diff changeset
3721 </para>
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parents:
diff changeset
3722 <para>
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diff changeset
3723 Unfortunately, the current adaptive B-frame decision algorithm
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3724 has a strong tendency to avoid B-frames during fades.
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3725 Until this changes, it may be a good idea to add
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3726 <option>nob_adapt</option> to your x264encopts, if you expect
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3727 fades to have a large effect in your particular video
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parents:
diff changeset
3728 clip.
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parents:
diff changeset
3729 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3730 </itemizedlist>
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diff changeset
3731 </sect3>
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diff changeset
3732
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diff changeset
3733 <sect3 id="menc-feat-x264-encoding-options-misc-preferences">
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parents:
diff changeset
3734 <title>Options pertaining to miscellaneous preferences</title>
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diff changeset
3735 <itemizedlist>
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diff changeset
3736 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3737 <emphasis role="bold">Two pass encoding</emphasis>:
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3738 Above, it was suggested to always use two pass encoding, but there
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3739 are still reasons for not using it. For instance, if you are capturing
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diff changeset
3740 live TV and encoding in realtime, you are forced to use single-pass.
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diff changeset
3741 Also, one pass is obviously faster than two passes; if you use the
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diff changeset
3742 exact same set of options on both passes, two pass encoding is almost
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diff changeset
3743 twice as slow.
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diff changeset
3744 </para>
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diff changeset
3745 <para>
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diff changeset
3746 Still, there are very good reasons for using two pass encoding. For
16340
5ceeeb85804c Avoid short forms.
diego
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diff changeset
3747 one thing, single pass ratecontrol is not psychic, and it often makes
5ceeeb85804c Avoid short forms.
diego
parents: 16339
diff changeset
3748 unreasonable choices because it cannot see the big picture. For example,
16080
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3749 suppose you have a two minute long video consisting of two distinct
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diff changeset
3750 halves. The first half is a very high-motion scene lasting 60 seconds
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diff changeset
3751 which, in isolation, requires about 2500kbps in order to look decent.
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diff changeset
3752 Immediately following it is a much less demanding 60-second scene
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parents:
diff changeset
3753 that looks good at 300kbps. Suppose you ask for 1400kbps on the theory
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diff changeset
3754 that this is enough to accomodate both scenes. Single pass ratecontrol
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diff changeset
3755 will make a couple of "mistakes" in such a case. First of all, it
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diff changeset
3756 will target 1400kbps in both segments. The first segment may end up
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diff changeset
3757 heavily overquantized, causing it to look unacceptably and unreasonably
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diff changeset
3758 blocky. The second segment will be heavily underquantized; it may look
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diff changeset
3759 perfect, but the bitrate cost of that perfection will be completely
16340
5ceeeb85804c Avoid short forms.
diego
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diff changeset
3760 unreasonable. What is even harder to avoid is the problem at the
16080
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parents:
diff changeset
3761 transition between the two scenes. The first seconds of the low motion
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diff changeset
3762 half will be hugely over-quantized, because the ratecontrol is still
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diff changeset
3763 expecting the kind of bitrate requirements it met in the first half
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diff changeset
3764 of the video. This "error period" of heavily over-quantized low motion
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diff changeset
3765 will look jarringly bad, and will actually use less than the 300kbps
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3766 it would have taken to make it look decent. There are ways to
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diff changeset
3767 mitigate the pitfalls of single-pass encoding, but they may tend to
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diff changeset
3768 increase bitrate misprediction.
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diff changeset
3769 </para>
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diff changeset
3770 <para>
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diff changeset
3771 Multipass ratecontrol can offer huge advantages over a single pass.
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diff changeset
3772 Using the statistics gathered from the first pass encode, the encoder
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diff changeset
3773 can estimate, with reasonable accuracy, the "cost" (in bits) of
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diff changeset
3774 encoding any given frame, at any given quantizer. This allows for
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diff changeset
3775 a much more rational, better planned allocation of bits between the
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diff changeset
3776 expensive (high-motion) and cheap (low-motion) scenes. See
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diff changeset
3777 <option>qcomp</option> below for some ideas on how to tweak this
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diff changeset
3778 allocation to your liking.
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diff changeset
3779 </para>
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diff changeset
3780 <para>
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diff changeset
3781 Moreover, two passes need not take twice as long as one pass. You can
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diff changeset
3782 tweak the options in the first pass for higher speed and lower quality.
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diff changeset
3783 If you choose your options well, you can get a very fast first pass.
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diff changeset
3784 The resulting quality in the second pass will be slightly lower because size
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diff changeset
3785 prediction is less accurate, but the quality difference is normally much
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diff changeset
3786 too small to be visible. Try, for example, adding
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3787 <option>subq=1:frameref=1</option> to the first pass
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diff changeset
3788 <option>x264encopts</option>. Then, on the second pass, use slower,
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diff changeset
3789 higher-quality options:
20271
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diff changeset
3790 <option>subq=6:frameref=15:partitions=all:me=umh</option>
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diff changeset
3791 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3792 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3793 <emphasis role="bold">Three pass encoding</emphasis>?
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diff changeset
3794
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diff changeset
3795 x264 offers the ability to make an arbitrary number of consecutive
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3796 passes. If you specify <option>pass=1</option> on the first pass,
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diff changeset
3797 then use <option>pass=3</option> on a subsequent pass, the subsequent
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3798 pass will both read the statistics from the previous pass, and write
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3799 its own statistics. An additional pass following this one will have
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diff changeset
3800 a very good base from which to make highly accurate predictions of
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3801 framesizes at a chosen quantizer. In practice, the overall quality
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diff changeset
3802 gain from this is usually close to zero, and quite possibly a third
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3803 pass will result in slightly worse global PSNR than the pass before
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diff changeset
3804 it. In typical usage, three passes help if you get either bad bitrate
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diff changeset
3805 prediction or bad looking scene transitions when using only two passes.
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diff changeset
3806 This is somewhat likely to happen on extremely short clips. There are
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diff changeset
3807 also a few special cases in which three (or more) passes are handy
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diff changeset
3808 for advanced users, but for brevity, this guide omits discussing those
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diff changeset
3809 special cases.
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diff changeset
3810
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diff changeset
3811 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3812 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3813 <emphasis role="bold">qcomp</emphasis>:
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3814 <option>qcomp</option> trades off the number of bits allocated
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diff changeset
3815 to "expensive" high-motion versus "cheap" low-motion frames. At
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3816 one extreme, <option>qcomp=0</option> aims for true constant
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diff changeset
3817 bitrate. Typically this would make high-motion scenes look completely
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diff changeset
3818 awful, while low-motion scenes would probably look absolutely
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diff changeset
3819 perfect, but would also use many times more bitrate than they
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diff changeset
3820 would need in order to look merely excellent. At the other extreme,
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diff changeset
3821 <option>qcomp=1</option> achieves nearly constant quantization parameter
16340
5ceeeb85804c Avoid short forms.
diego
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diff changeset
3822 (QP). Constant QP does not look bad, but most people think it is more
16080
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diff changeset
3823 reasonable to shave some bitrate off of the extremely expensive scenes
16340
5ceeeb85804c Avoid short forms.
diego
parents: 16339
diff changeset
3824 (where the loss of quality is not as noticeable) and reallocate it to
16080
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diff changeset
3825 the scenes that are easier to encode at excellent quality.
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diff changeset
3826 <option>qcomp</option> is set to 0.6 by default, which may be slightly
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diff changeset
3827 low for many peoples' taste (0.7-0.8 are also commonly used).
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diff changeset
3828 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3829 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
3830 <emphasis role="bold">keyint</emphasis>:
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diff changeset
3831 <option>keyint</option> is solely for trading off file seekability against
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parents:
diff changeset
3832 coding efficiency. By default, <option>keyint</option> is set to 250. In
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diff changeset
3833 25fps material, this guarantees the ability to seek to within 10 seconds
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parents:
diff changeset
3834 precision. If you think it would be important and useful to be able to
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parents:
diff changeset
3835 seek within 5 seconds of precision, set <option>keyint=125</option>;
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
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3836 this will hurt quality/bitrate slightly. If you care only about quality
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3837 and not about seekability, you can set it to much higher values
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3838 (understanding that there are diminishing returns which may become
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3839 vanishingly low, or even zero). The video stream will still have seekable
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3840 points as long as there are some scene changes.
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3841 </para></listitem>
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3842 <listitem><para>
20254
beca75a03355 Update x264 option names that changed with r20060
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3843 <emphasis role="bold">deblock</emphasis>:
16080
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3844 This topic is going to be a bit controversial.
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3845 </para>
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3846 <para>
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3847 H.264 defines a simple deblocking procedure on I-blocks that uses
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3848 pre-set strengths and thresholds depending on the QP of the block
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3849 in question.
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3850 By default, high QP blocks are filtered heavily, and low QP blocks
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3851 are not deblocked at all.
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3852 The pre-set strengths defined by the standard are well-chosen and
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3853 the odds are very good that they are PSNR-optimal for whatever
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3854 video you are trying to encode.
20254
beca75a03355 Update x264 option names that changed with r20060
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3855 The <option>deblock</option> allow you to specify offsets to the preset deblocking
16080
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diff changeset
3856 thresholds.
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diff changeset
3857 </para>
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3858 <para>
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diff changeset
3859 Many people seem to think it is a good idea to lower the deblocking
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3860 filter strength by large amounts (say, -3).
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3861 This is however almost never a good idea, and in most cases,
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3862 people who are doing this do not understand very well how
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3863 deblocking works by default.
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3864 </para>
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3865 <para>
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3866 The first and most important thing to know about the in-loop
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3867 deblocking filter is that the default thresholds are almost always
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3868 PSNR-optimal.
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3869 In the rare cases that they are not optimal, the ideal offset is
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3870 plus or minus 1.
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3871 Adjusting deblocking parameters by a larger amount is almost
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3872 guaranteed to hurt PSNR.
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3873 Strengthening the filter will smear more details; weakening the
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3874 filter will increase the appearance of blockiness.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3875 </para>
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3876 <para>
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3877 It is definitely a bad idea to lower the deblocking thresholds if
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3878 your source is mainly low in spacial complexity (i.e., not a lot
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3879 of detail or noise).
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3880 The in-loop filter does a rather excellent job of concealing
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3881 the artifacts that occur.
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diff changeset
3882 If the source is high in spacial complexity, however, artifacts
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3883 are less noticeable.
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3884 This is because the ringing tends to look like detail or noise.
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3885 Human visual perception easily notices when detail is removed,
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3886 but it does not so easily notice when the noise is wrongly
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3887 represented.
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3888 When it comes to subjective quality, noise and detail are somewhat
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diff changeset
3889 interchangeable.
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diff changeset
3890 By lowering the deblocking filter strength, you are most likely
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
3891 increasing error by adding ringing artifacts, but the eye does
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diff changeset
3892 not notice because it confuses the artifacts with detail.
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diff changeset
3893 </para>
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diff changeset
3894
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diff changeset
3895 <para>
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diff changeset
3896 This <emphasis role="bold">still</emphasis> does not justify
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
3897 lowering the deblocking filter strength, however.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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diff changeset
3898 You can generally get better quality noise from postprocessing.
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diff changeset
3899 If your H.264 encodes look too blurry or smeared, try playing with
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3900 <option>-vf noise</option> when you play your encoded movie.
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3901 <option>-vf noise=8a:4a</option> should conceal most mild
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3902 artifacting.
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diff changeset
3903 It will almost certainly look better than the results you
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3904 would have gotten just by fiddling with the deblocking filter.
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3905 </para></listitem>
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diff changeset
3906 </itemizedlist>
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3907 </sect3>
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3908 </sect2>
16277
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3909
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3910 <sect2 id="menc-feat-x264-example-settings">
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
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diff changeset
3911 <title>Encoding setting examples</title>
16277
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3912
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gpoirier
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3913 <para>
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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diff changeset
3914 The following settings are examples of different encoding
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
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diff changeset
3915 option combinations that affect the speed vs quality tradeoff
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
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3916 at the same target bitrate.
16277
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3917 </para>
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3918
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3919 <para>
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3920 All the encoding settings were tested on a 720x448 @30000/1001 fps
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
gpoirier
parents: 16229
diff changeset
3921 video sample, the target bitrate was 900kbps, and the machine was an
20037
50113e22db17 Fix hz vs Hz typo.
diego
parents: 19038
diff changeset
3922 AMD-64 3400+ at 2400 MHz in 64 bits mode.
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
3923 Each encoding setting features the measured encoding speed (in
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3924 frames per second) and the PSNR loss (in dB) compared to the "very
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3925 high quality" setting.
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3926 Please understand that depending on your source, your machine type
16599
ec3b4dcfc5f9 Nits noticed by Diego
gpoirier
parents: 16596
diff changeset
3927 and development advancements, you may get very different results.
16277
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3928 </para>
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3929
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3930 <para>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3931 <informaltable frame="all">
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3932 <tgroup cols="4">
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3933 <thead>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3934 <row><entry>Description</entry><entry>Encoding options</entry><entry>speed (in fps)</entry><entry>Relative PSNR loss (in dB)</entry></row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3935 </thead>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3936 <tbody>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3937 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3938 <entry>Very high quality</entry>
20274
001ed9bcb2ab remove me=3 leftover (x264)
kraymer
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3939 <entry><option>subq=6:partitions=all:8x8dct:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b</option></entry>
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3940 <entry>6fps</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3941 <entry>0dB</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3942 </row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3943 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3944 <entry>High quality</entry>
20271
bb1bddc32870 Update x264 option names that changed with r20060
lorenm
parents: 20254
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3945 <entry><option>subq=5:8x8dct:frameref=2:bframes=3:b_pyramid:weight_b</option></entry>
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
diff changeset
3946 <entry>13fps</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3947 <entry>-0.89dB</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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diff changeset
3948 </row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3949 <row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3950 <entry>Fast</entry>
16606
7a06ad5c5b2c the "psnr" option doesn't really need to be in the encoding setting examples.
gpoirier
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3951 <entry><option>subq=4:bframes=2:b_pyramid:weight_b</option></entry>
16596
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3952 <entry>17fps</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3953 <entry>-1.48dB</entry>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3954 </row>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3955 </tbody>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
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3956 </tgroup>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
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3957 </informaltable>
0e73f31bfc6a Adds encoding setting examples for lavc and XviD.
gpoirier
parents: 16558
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3958 </para>
16277
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3959 </sect2>
d5ff51c5970f Encoding setting examples for x264
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3960
16080
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3961 </sect1>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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3962
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
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3963 <sect1 id="menc-feat-video-for-windows">
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
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3964 <title>Encoding with the <systemitem class="library">Video For Windows</systemitem> codec family</title>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
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3965
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
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3966 <para>
18410
f07c9898029f typo/wording fixes
diego
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diff changeset
3967 Video for Windows provides simple encoding by means of binary video codecs.
f07c9898029f typo/wording fixes
diego
parents: 18405
diff changeset
3968 You can encode with the following codecs (if you have more, please tell us!)
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
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3969 </para>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
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3970 <para>
18410
f07c9898029f typo/wording fixes
diego
parents: 18405
diff changeset
3971 Note that support for this is very experimental and some codecs may not work
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3972 correctly. Some codecs will only work in certain colorspaces, try
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3973 <option>-vf format=bgr24</option> and <option>-vf format=yuy2</option>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3974 if a codec fails or gives wrong output.
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3975 </para>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3976
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3977 <sect2 id="menc-feat-enc-vfw-video-codecs">
18410
f07c9898029f typo/wording fixes
diego
parents: 18405
diff changeset
3978 <title>Video for Windows supported codecs</title>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3979
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3980 <para>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3981 <informaltable frame="all">
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3982 <tgroup cols="4">
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3983 <thead>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3984 <row>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3985 <entry>Video codec file name</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3986 <entry>Description (FourCC)</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3987 <entry>md5sum</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3988 <entry>Comment</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3989 </row>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3990 </thead>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3991 <tbody>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3992 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3993 <entry>aslcodec_vfw.dll</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3994 <entry>Alparysoft lossless codec vfw (ASLC)</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3995 <entry>608af234a6ea4d90cdc7246af5f3f29a</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
3996 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3997 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3998 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
3999 <entry>avimszh.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4000 <entry>AVImszh (MSZH)</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4001 <entry>253118fe1eedea04a95ed6e5f4c28878</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4002 <entry>needs <option>-vf format</option></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4003 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4004 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4005 <entry>avizlib.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4006 <entry>AVIzlib (ZLIB)</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4007 <entry>2f1cc76bbcf6d77d40d0e23392fa8eda</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4008 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4009 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4010 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4011 <entry>divx.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4012 <entry>DivX4Windows-VFW</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4013 <entry>acf35b2fc004a89c829531555d73f1e6</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4014 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4015 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4016 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4017 <entry>huffyuv.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4018 <entry>HuffYUV (lossless) (HFYU)</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4019 <entry>b74695b50230be4a6ef2c4293a58ac3b</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4020 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4021 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4022 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4023 <entry>iccvid.dll</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4024 <entry>Cinepak Video (cvid)</entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4025 <entry>cb3b7ee47ba7dbb3d23d34e274895133</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4026 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4027 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4028 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4029 <entry>icmw_32.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4030 <entry>Motion Wavelets (MWV1)</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4031 <entry>c9618a8fc73ce219ba918e3e09e227f2</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4032 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4033 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4034 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4035 <entry>jp2avi.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4036 <entry>ImagePower MJPEG2000 (IPJ2)</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4037 <entry>d860a11766da0d0ea064672c6833768b</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4038 <entry><option>-vf flip</option></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4039 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4040 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4041 <entry>m3jp2k32.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4042 <entry>Morgan MJPEG2000 (MJ2C)</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4043 <entry>f3c174edcbaef7cb947d6357cdfde7ff</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4044 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4045 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4046 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4047 <entry>m3jpeg32.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4048 <entry>Morgan Motion JPEG Codec (MJPG)</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4049 <entry>1cd13fff5960aa2aae43790242c323b1</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4050 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4051 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4052 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4053 <entry>mpg4c32.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4054 <entry>Microsoft MPEG-4 v1/v2</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4055 <entry>b5791ea23f33010d37ab8314681f1256</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4056 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4057 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4058 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4059 <entry>tsccvid.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4060 <entry>TechSmith Camtasia Screen Codec (TSCC)</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4061 <entry>8230d8560c41d444f249802a2700d1d5</entry>
18516
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4062 <entry>shareware error on windows</entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4063 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4064 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4065 <entry>vp31vfw.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4066 <entry>On2 Open Source VP3 Codec (VP31)</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4067 <entry>845f3590ea489e2e45e876ab107ee7d2</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4068 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4069 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4070 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4071 <entry>vp4vfw.dll</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4072 <entry>On2 VP4 Personal Codec (VP40)</entry>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4073 <entry>fc5480a482ccc594c2898dcc4188b58f</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4074 <entry></entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4075 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4076 <row>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4077 <entry>vp6vfw.dll</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4078 <entry>On2 VP6 Personal Codec (VP60)</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4079 <entry>04d635a364243013898fd09484f913fb</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4080 <entry>crashing on Linux</entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4081 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4082 <row>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4083 <entry>vp7vfw.dll</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4084 <entry>On2 VP7 Personal Codec (VP70)</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4085 <entry>cb4cc3d4ea7c94a35f1d81c3d750bc8d</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4086 <entry>wrong FourCC?</entry>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4087 </row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4088 <row>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4089 <entry>ViVD2.dll</entry>
18456
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4090 <entry>SoftMedia ViVD V2 codec VfW (GXVE)</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4091 <entry>a7b4bf5cac630bb9262c3f80d8a773a1</entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4092 <entry></entry>
dbe929ff7920 some fixes for the VfW encoding section
diego
parents: 18410
diff changeset
4093 </row>
18516
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4094 <row>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4095 <entry>msulvc06.DLL</entry>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4096 <entry>MSU Lossless codec (MSUD)</entry>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4097 <entry>294bf9288f2f127bb86f00bfcc9ccdda</entry>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4098 <entry>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4099 Decodable by <application>Window Media Player</application>,
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4100 not <application>MPlayer</application> (yet).
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4101 </entry>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4102 </row>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4103 <row>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4104 <entry>camcodec.dll</entry>
18544
68f39270e44f typo fixes
gabrov
parents: 18516
diff changeset
4105 <entry>CamStudio lossless video codec (CSCD)</entry>
18516
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4106 <entry>0efe97ce08bb0e40162ab15ef3b45615</entry>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4107 <entry>sf.net/projects/camstudio</entry>
9f1055791225 document more codecs supported by vfw interface.
gpoirier
parents: 18510
diff changeset
4108 </row>
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4109 </tbody>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4110 </tgroup>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4111 </informaltable>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4112
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4113 The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
18410
f07c9898029f typo/wording fixes
diego
parents: 18405
diff changeset
4114 <literal>codec</literal> parameter, like: <option>-xvfwopts codec=divx.dll</option>
f07c9898029f typo/wording fixes
diego
parents: 18405
diff changeset
4115 The FourCC code used by each codec is given in the parentheses.
18405
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4116 </para>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4117 <informalexample>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4118 <para>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4119 An example with VP3 compression:
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4120 <screen>mencoder dvd://2 -o title2.avi -ovc vfw -xvfwopts codec=vp31vfw.dll -oac copy</screen>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4121 </para>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4122 </informalexample>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4123 </sect2>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4124 </sect1>
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4125
3c491f0bbb96 Explain how to use -ovc vfw, patch by compn < tempn AH twmi PIO rr POI com >, fixes, reformat, pretty indent by me.
gpoirier
parents: 17757
diff changeset
4126
16080
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4127 <sect1 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd">
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4128 <title>Using MEncoder to create VCD/SVCD/DVD-compliant files.</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4129
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4130 <sect2 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-constraints">
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4131 <title>Format Constraints</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4132 <para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4133 <application>MEncoder</application> is capable of creating VCD, SCVD
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4134 and DVD format MPEG files using the
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4135 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> library.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4136 These files can then be used in conjunction with
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4137 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/vcdimager.html">vcdimager</ulink>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4138 or
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4139 <ulink url="http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net/">dvdauthor</ulink>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4140 to create discs that will play on a standard set-top player.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4141 </para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4142
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4143 <para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4144 The DVD, SVCD, and VCD formats are subject to heavy constraints.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4145 Only a small selection of encoded picture sizes and aspect ratios are
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4146 available.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4147 If your movie does not already meet these requirements, you may have
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4148 to scale,crop or add black borders to the picture to make it
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4149 compliant.
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4150 </para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4151
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4152 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-constraints-resolution">
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4153 <title>Format Constraints</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4154
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4155 <informaltable frame="all">
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4156 <tgroup cols="9">
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4157 <thead>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4158 <row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4159 <entry>Format</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4160 <entry>Resolution</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4161 <entry>V. Codec</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4162 <entry>V. Bitrate</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4163 <entry>Sample Rate</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4164 <entry>A. Codec</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4165 <entry>A. Bitrate</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4166 <entry>FPS</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4167 <entry>Aspect</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4168 </row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4169 </thead>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4170 <tbody>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4171 <row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4172 <entry>NTSC DVD</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4173 <entry>720x480, 704x480, 352x480, 352x240</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4174 <entry>MPEG-2</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4175 <entry>9800 kbps</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4176 <entry>48000 Hz</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4177 <entry>AC3,PCM</entry>
16628
707845f95a15 fixes the bug #382 http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=382
gpoirier
parents: 16606
diff changeset
4178 <entry>1536 kbps (max)</entry>
707845f95a15 fixes the bug #382 http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=382
gpoirier
parents: 16606
diff changeset
4179 <entry>30000/1001, 24000/1001</entry>
16080
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4180 <entry>4:3, 16:9 (only for 720x480)</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4181 </row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4182 <row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4183 <entry>NTSC DVD</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4184 <entry>352x240<footnote id='fn-rare-resolutions'><para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4185 These resolutions are rarely used for DVDs because
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4186 they are fairly low quality.</para></footnote></entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4187 <entry>MPEG-1</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4188 <entry>1856 kbps</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4189 <entry>48000 Hz</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4190 <entry>AC3,PCM</entry>
16628
707845f95a15 fixes the bug #382 http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=382
gpoirier
parents: 16606
diff changeset
4191 <entry>1536 kbps (max)</entry>
707845f95a15 fixes the bug #382 http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=382
gpoirier
parents: 16606
diff changeset
4192 <entry>30000/1001, 24000/1001</entry>
16080
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4193 <entry>4:3, 16:9</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4194 </row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4195 <row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4196 <entry>NTSC SVCD</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4197 <entry>480x480</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4198 <entry>MPEG-2</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4199 <entry>2600 kbps</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
4200 <entry>44100 Hz</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
4201 <entry>MP2</entry>
16628
707845f95a15 fixes the bug #382 http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=382
gpoirier
parents: 16606
diff changeset
4202 <entry>384 kbps (max)</entry>
16283
67dc03c037e7 How to encode with soft 3:2 pullup, patch by Brendan McCarthy
gpoirier
parents: 16277
diff changeset
4203 <entry>30000/1001</entry>
16080
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4204 <entry>4:3</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4205 </row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4206 <row>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4207 <entry>NTSC VCD</entry>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
gpoirier
parents:
diff changeset
4208 <entry>352x240</entry>
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4209 <entry>MPEG-1</entry>
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4210 <entry>1150 kbps</entry>
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4219 <entry>720x576, 704x576, 352x576, 352x288</entry>
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4222 <entry>48000 Hz</entry>
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4223 <entry>MP2,AC3,PCM</entry>
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4224 <entry>1536 kbps (max)</entry>
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4226 <entry>4:3, 16:9 (only for 720x576)</entry>
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4229 <entry>PAL DVD</entry>
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4230 <entry>352x288<footnoteref linkend='fn-rare-resolutions'/></entry>
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4233 <entry>48000 Hz</entry>
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4234 <entry>MP2,AC3,PCM</entry>
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4235 <entry>1536 kbps (max)</entry>
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4236 <entry>25</entry>
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4237 <entry>4:3, 16:9</entry>
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4238 </row>
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4239 <row>
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4241 <entry>480x576</entry>
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4242 <entry>MPEG-2</entry>
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4244 <entry>44100 Hz</entry>
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4245 <entry>MP2</entry>
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4246 <entry>384 kbps (max)</entry>
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4247 <entry>25</entry>
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4248 <entry>4:3</entry>
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4249 </row>
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4250 <row>
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4251 <entry>PAL VCD</entry>
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4252 <entry>352x288</entry>
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4253 <entry>MPEG-1</entry>
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4254 <entry>1152 kbps</entry>
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4256 <entry>MP2</entry>
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4259 <entry>4:3</entry>
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4264
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4265 <para>
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4266 If your movie has 2.35:1 aspect (most recent action movies), you will
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4267 have to add black borders or crop the movie down to 16:9 to make a DVD
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4268 or VCD.
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4269 If you add black borders, try to align them at 16-pixel boundaries in
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4270 order to minimize the impact on encoding performance.
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4271 Thankfully DVD has sufficiently excessive bitrate that you do not have
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4272 to worry too much about encoding efficiency, but SVCD and VCD are
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4273 highly bitrate-starved and require effort to obtain acceptable quality.
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4278 <title>GOP Size Constraints</title>
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4280 DVD, VCD, and SVCD also constrain you to relatively low
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4281 GOP (Group of Pictures) sizes.
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4282 For 30 fps material the largest allowed GOP size is 18.
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4283 For 25 or 24 fps, the maximum is 15.
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4284 The GOP size is set using the <option>keyint</option> option.
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4285 </para>
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4289 <title>Bitrate Constraints</title>
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4292 This highly limiting constraint also comes along with an extremly low vbv
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4293 buffer size of 327 kilobits.
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4294 SVCD allows varying video bitrates up to 2500 kbps, and a somewhat less
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4295 restrictive vbv buffer size of 917 kilobits is allowed.
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4297 bitrates are about half that), and the vbv buffer size is 1835 kilobits.
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4305 <application>MEncoder</application> has options to control the output
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4307 Using these options we can instruct it to create the correct type of
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4312 The options for VCD and SVCD are called xvcd and xsvcd, because they
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4314 They are not strictly compliant, mainly because the output does not
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4317 to
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4318 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/vcdimager/vcdimager.html">vcdimager</ulink>.
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4324 -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xvcd
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4329 SVCD:
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4331 -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xsvcd
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4332 </screen>
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4333 </para>
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diff changeset
4334
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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4335 <para>
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4337 <screen>
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4344 <screen>
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
4350
16080
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4351 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-output-aspect">
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4352 <title>Aspect Ratio</title>
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diff changeset
4353 <para>
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4354 The aspect argument of <option>-lavcopts</option> is used to encode
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4355 the aspect ratio of the file.
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4356 During playback the aspect ratio is used to restore the video to the
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diff changeset
4357 correct size.
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diff changeset
4358 </para>
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diff changeset
4359
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diff changeset
4360 <para>
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4361 16:9 or "Widescreen"
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diff changeset
4362 <screen>
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4363 -lavcopts aspect=16/9
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4364 </screen>
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diff changeset
4366
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diff changeset
4367 <para>
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4368 4:3 or "Fullscreen"
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4369 <screen>
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4370 -lavcopts aspect=4/3
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
4373
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diff changeset
4374 <para>
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4375 2.35:1 or "Cinemascope" NTSC
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4376 <screen>
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4377 -vf scale=720:368,expand=720:480 -lavcopts aspect=16/9
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diff changeset
4378 </screen>
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4379 To calculate the correct scaling size, use the expanded NTSC width of
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4380 854/2.35 = 368
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diff changeset
4381 </para>
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diff changeset
4382
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diff changeset
4383 <para>
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diff changeset
4384 2.35:1 or "Cinemascope" PAL
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4385 <screen>
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diff changeset
4386 -vf scale="720:432,expand=720:576 -lavcopts aspect=16/9
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diff changeset
4387 </screen>
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4388 To calculate the correct scaling size, use the expanded PAL width of
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diff changeset
4389 1024/2.35 = 432
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diff changeset
4390 </para>
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diff changeset
4391
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4392 </sect3>
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4393
17406
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4394 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-a-v-sync">
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diff changeset
4395 <title>Maintaining A/V sync</title>
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diff changeset
4396 <para>
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diff changeset
4397 In order to maintain audio/video synchronization throughout the encode,
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diff changeset
4398 <application>MEncoder</application> has to drop or duplicate frames.
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diff changeset
4399 This works rather well when muxing into an AVI file, but is almost
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diff changeset
4400 guaranteed to fail to maintain A/V sync with other muxers such as MPEG.
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diff changeset
4401 This is why it is necessary to append the
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diff changeset
4402 <option>harddup</option> video filter at the end of the filter chain
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diff changeset
4403 to avoid this kind of problem.
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diff changeset
4404 You can find more technical information about <option>harddup</option>
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
4406 <link linkend="menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4-muxing-filter-issues">Improving muxing and A/V sync reliability</link>
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diff changeset
4407 or in the manual page.
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diff changeset
4408 </para>
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diff changeset
4409 </sect3>
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diff changeset
4410
16080
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4411 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-output-srate">
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4413 <para>
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4414 If the audio sample rate in the original file is not the same as
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4415 required by the target format, sample rate conversion is required.
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4416 This is achieved using the <option>-srate</option> option and
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4417 the <option>-af lavcresample</option> audio filter together.
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4418 </para>
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diff changeset
4419 <para>
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4422 -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000
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diff changeset
4426 VCD and SVCD:
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diff changeset
4427 <screen>
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4434 <sect2 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-lavc">
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4435 <title>Using libavcodec for VCD/SVCD/DVD Encoding</title>
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diff changeset
4436
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diff changeset
4437 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-lavc-intro">
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diff changeset
4438 <title>Introduction</title>
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diff changeset
4439 <para>
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diff changeset
4440 <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> can be used to
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diff changeset
4441 create VCD/SVCD/DVD compliant video by using the appropriate options.
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diff changeset
4442 </para>
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diff changeset
4443 </sect3>
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diff changeset
4444
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diff changeset
4445 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-lavc-options">
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diff changeset
4446 <title>lavcopts</title>
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diff changeset
4447 <para>
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diff changeset
4448 This is a list of fields in <option>-lavcopts</option> that you may
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4449 be required to change in order to make a complaint movie for VCD, SVCD,
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
4451 </para>
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diff changeset
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diff changeset
4453 <itemizedlist>
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diff changeset
4454 <listitem><para>
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diff changeset
4455 <emphasis role="bold">acodec</emphasis>:
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diff changeset
4456 <option>mp2</option> for VCD, SVCD, or PAL DVD;
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diff changeset
4457 <option>ac3</option> is most commonly used for DVD.
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diff changeset
4458 PCM audio may also be used for DVD, but this is mostly a big waste of
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4459 space.
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4460 Note that MP3 audio is not compliant for any of these formats, but
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4461 players often have no problem playing it anyway.
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4462 </para></listitem>
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4496 1152, for VCD. May be left alone for SVCD and DVD.
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4502 For SVCD and DVD, you might wish to use lower values depending on your
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4526 This is a typical minimum set of <option>-lavcopts</option> for
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4556 <title>Advanced Options</title>
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4559 options to lavcopts, such as <option>trell</option>,
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4560 <option>mbd=2</option>, and others.
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4563 Also, if you are trying to make a very high quality DVD encode, it may
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4564 be useful to add <option>dc=10</option> to lavcopts.
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4565 Doing so may help reduce the appearance of blocks in flat-colored areas.
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4566 Putting it all together, this is an example of a set of lavcopts for a
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4581 <sect2 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-audio">
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4582 <title>Encoding Audio</title>
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4583 <para>
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4584 VCD and SVCD support MPEG-1 layer II audio, using one of
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4704 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-all-pal-svcd">
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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4705 <title>PAL SVCD</title>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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parents:
diff changeset
4706 <para>
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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4707 <screen>
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4708 mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xsvcd -vf \
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4709 scale=480:576,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts \
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4712 -o <replaceable>movie.mpg</replaceable> <replaceable>movie.avi</replaceable>
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4716
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4717 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-all-ntsc-svcd">
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4718 <title>NTSC SVCD</title>
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4719 <para>
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4720 <screen>
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4721 mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xsvcd -vf \
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4722 scale=480:480,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts \
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4723 vcodec=mpeg2video:mbd=2:keyint=18:vrc_buf_size=917:vrc_minrate=600:\
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4724 vbitrate=2500:vrc_maxrate=2500:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ofps 30000/1001 \
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4725 -o <replaceable>movie.mpg</replaceable> <replaceable>movie.avi</replaceable>
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4726 </screen>
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4727 </para>
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4728 </sect3>
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4729
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4730 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-all-pal-vcd">
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4731 <title>PAL VCD</title>
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4732 <para>
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4733 <screen>
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4734 mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xvcd -vf \
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4735 scale=352:288,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts \
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4736 vcodec=mpeg1video:keyint=15:vrc_buf_size=327:vrc_minrate=1152:vbitrate=1152:\
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4737 vrc_maxrate=1152:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ofps 25 \
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4738 -o <replaceable>movie.mpg</replaceable> <replaceable>movie.avi</replaceable>
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4742
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4743 <sect3 id="menc-feat-vcd-dvd-all-ntsc-vcd">
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4744 <title>NTSC VCD</title>
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4745 <para>
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4747 mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=xvcd -vf \
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4748 scale=352:240,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts \
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4750 vrc_maxrate=1152:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ofps 30000/1001 \
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4757
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4758 </sect1>
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4759
baae7cdb0726 re-organize MEncoder doc in a more sensible way: splitting "basic mencoder usage" and "encoding with mencoder".
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4760 </chapter>